Thursday, 12 March 2009

Structures, hexagons, compasses, honeycombes, tessellations and.... dandelions

What an interesting session this evening.

We are starting a new topic which involves exploring structures. We talked about why a dandelion remained standing upright even when high winds had blown down fences, more about this next week.
We explored how to create a hexagon using a compass, and we built a large honeycomb which we then tested by standing on it. A really good introduction.
Tension and compression in a column was examined and our homework was to look up the word CONTRAFLEXURE and think why this could be relevant to a column under stress / loading.

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