The task was set before us to create a sculpture from nothing but newspaper and tape. In small groups my colleges and I set out to create the most unique and tallest sculpture. Every group attacked the situation differently, using their own ideas to create a somewhat structurally sound tower from flimsy materials.
My group decided to use tape as supports. Linking the skeleton of newspaper together from cross-joints to cross-joints. This proved to be not only aesthetically pleasing but very structurally sound. Reaching as high as we could to the sky with our design we started to focus more on elaborating the architecture. We decided to make a spiraling walkway up to the top of the tower. Using organic shapes as much as possible we winded a staircase like structure to the top.
Going off on an idea of mine we webbed the structure with tape. We found that not only did this give it the feel of, “Venom sneezing all over a clock tower” or somewhat of an organic eerie feeling, but it made the structure incredibly strong. By the end of the project, someone could hold the entire town on its side at one of the trusses and not worry about it breaking in the middle.
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