wooden wombs

Students from Professor Angela Behrends' 3D Design class show
off their designs.

On Wednesday our class had the opportunity to witness the students from Professor Angela Behrends' 3D Design class drop eggs encased in a 3D creation made of toothpicks and skewers. The key to the exercise was to build something with these simple materials that would protect the egg from breaking when dropped from the fire escape. The different ideas of what to build around the egg took on many different shapes, sizes, and theories of what would work to protect it. After taking a look at the many different designs, I decided that the ones that were built larger would probably work the best because they would absorb more of the shock. As it turned out I was right. Below are a few videos of designs where the eggs did not break, take notice how they have a bigger design.

 

Unfortunately there were also those whose eggs did not fare so well. The one thing I noticed about these designs is they were smaller and more rigid so they probably didn't absorb shock as well.

 

  

 

 

And then there's the one where we didn't know whether the egg broke or not because it is completely covered.

 

  

 

What's interesting is how, when, or where any collection can start. I wouldn't see myself collecting something like this per se, but it could be something that Professor Behrend's may record and collect with every new class. This was a good exercise with archiving an event so it may viewed by other in the future.