Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Snow Bridge













































Our group started this project with very different ideas in mind. One of our ideas was to create a Roman inspired bridge with blocks. But we soon realizes that we would need to first makes molds and have a lot of them. Our other idea which we then ended up using was to create a natural looking bridge and and then carve into it a troll holding it up. We felt that a natural bridge would be best because we were making it out of a natural material, snow. We started of building p snow and pouring water onto them so it could freeze into ice overnight. As part of out bridge we wanted to create to two arches. We laid garbage cans in between the three columns we started to make and piled the snow on top of them. Our method was piling snow and pouring water one after the other. The top of our bridge where one would walk, we wanted to make like a balance beam. Since we were going with a natural theme, we figure in nature if a bridge was to form it would not necessarily be the safest to walk across. When out bridge's shape was completed, Evan began to design a face on to it, we were unable to make the hands that held it up due to time and the chance that we would not be able to pull it off. In the end out bridge came out in a way that all of us were happy with. Luke walked across it with ease and we feel it was visually pleasing.

Much Love,

Katie, Luke, Chris, Evan and Laura

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