further FMP Activities.

Today, i continued researching further into my final piece, to find more resources for my bibliography. I now have 4 books that i have borrowed from the learning curve to help me with my research on the topic i have chosen, which is architecture.
Once i had gathered more information, later that day i took part in 2 group activites to help us understand our project more. The first activity i was in a group of 5 and we had to work as a team to create the tallest tower possible, made from 50 straws and duct tape. This is how ours turned out:

The objective of this activity was to create a tower which would securely hold a wooden ball somewhere in the structure. This turned out really well as, we worked as a team to overcome certain problems such as, we had to create a base to hold it steady as at first it was too heavy and began to topple over, however omce we created a type of base, it stood up on its own quite well. We also added extra straws down the sides to make it more secure.
This is an image i had taken at the beginning of the activity to show our planning and development.

For the second task we were put into groups of 4, however this time it was with different people. We had to create a structure that would hold a kg weight and then a five kg weight, using just card. We created a triangular sttucture, which looked like this:

It worked quite well for the 1kg weight, however when we placed the 5kg weight in the structure, it wasnt strong rnough to hold it, therefore it collapsed and was crused by the weight. To prevent this from happening if we did it again, i would add more slots on the inside to try and strengthen it.