Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Meghan Roach - Snow Bridge













In my group there was me, Hallie, Andrea, Lauren, and Nate. We all came up with a lot of ideas for our proposal including a "mouth bridge". There was even one that involved snowmen but we didn't even show it because of the fear of shame. But we ended up choosing the idea of an organic structure, made very rounded and smooth, almost like an Dr. Seuss theme. Our original sketch of the bridge was 9 ft in length, and about 5 ft high. We ended up with probably 4 1/2 ft high, and a lot more than 9 ft in length. We thought the best way to approach the project was to make an immense mound of snow, use slush, drizzle it in water, and let it sit over night. We added stairs on each end to make it easier to get on top. We even had some little kids test it out for us on Monday afternoon. After we had a solid form, we all dug into the snow to make the arches. Our bridge ended up holding 13 people! :D And it could probably hold more, but I'd like it to last for a while.

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