JuniorIng 2024/2025

We finally handed our tower to the “Hochschule München”! It was transported in a makeshift cardboard box so that it would not only be protected from potential damages but also curious stares. When we carried it openly through our school, we had to endure a lot of people intensely staring, … Weiterlesen …

The hardest part of building the tensegrity tower was finding a starting point and understanding the pattern of the structure of the 3D model we used as a reference. The strings kept shifting around at first because some weren’t attached as strongly as the others. It was annoying to tighten … Weiterlesen …

We finally started building our tower by beginning with the Chinese Tower part that is supposed to go on top. By gluing toothpicks or skewers together, we formed many hexagons, which, as we know from last year’s project, are especially sturdy. You can see these in the picture below. We … Weiterlesen …

After countless hours of consideration, discussion, and research, we’ve composed a final plan for our tower. We decided to follow the idea mentioned in our previous blog post of merging design elements of the Chinese Tower from the English Garden in Munich with a Tensegrity structure. For the Tensegrity part, … Weiterlesen …

After at least somewhat understanding how Tensegrity works, we wondered how we could plan a completely original tower design. At first, we looked into the math that revolves around this principle and quickly realized that it was far from the relatively simple math that we were taught in school so … Weiterlesen …

To build a Tensegrity tower, we have to do an immense amount of research. So let me tell you what we found out so far. Even though we focused on towers in our case, there is no certain way that a tensegrity structure has to look. This principle can also … Weiterlesen …

After careful consideration, we‘ve determined the direction we’ll take from now on in this project. As you already know from our previous post, we were set on having Tensegrity as our main idea. But we decided to expand on this even further. We plan to include elements of the “Chinese … Weiterlesen …

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 …