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After definitely deciding on Tensegrity as our main idea and giving our tower the truly glorious working title „Defying Gravity“, we wanted to come up with a concept that we could implement with this fascinating structural principle. We decided to try to learn from the greats and look up a … Weiterlesen …

Since the only limit for this project is our imagination (and of course the rules and regulations), we came up with our first idea fairly quickly. Plan A was to build an accurate upscaled recreation of the DNA double-helix as a tower. But as we continued to ponder alternative approaches, … Weiterlesen …

This year, we’ll have the opportunity to build a tower at least 70cm tall! The biggest challenge will be that we have a very limited list of allowed materials and that the construction will be able to withstand the multiple stability tests, the transportation of the model being one of … Weiterlesen …

On 12th of March we finally got the results of our competition. The hard work was worth it: we got the third place! The reasons for the jury’s decision were our innovative supporting construction based on the shape of a hexagon as the most stable form in nature. That is … Weiterlesen …

Finally our model is finished! Lately we have been working very hard on designing and building the model in order to make it until the very tight deadline. But thank God we were able to hand it in at the university in Munich in time. However, finally building the model … Weiterlesen …