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Project 1: Form and Function

Architectural Design II - ARC 257

This project emphasizes the importance of balancing appearance and workability in creating appealing and functional structures. We are given the task of redesigning an existing bridge to let water traffic pass through a 30' x 40' opening, which required us to careful consider both the design's form and function of a bridge.

Span Prototype

Name: Fourth Bridge
Type: Cantilever Bridge
Location: South Queensferry, United Kingdom 

Name: Minato Bridge
Type: Cantilever Truss Bridge
Location: Kanazawa, Japan 

Name: Neva River Bridge
Type: Cable-Stay Bridge
Location: St. Petersburg, Florida 

Moment Analogies

We had to find five household items that have two or more hinges in a mechanical sense and choose three of them to use for the bridge opening.  The three items that I want to use are eyelash curler, ice cream scooper and a wine bottle opener. We then took each item and 3-D modeled them and diagramed the functions of each item for a better understanding of their mechanics before incorporating them into our bridge prototypes.
 

Preliminary 3x3 Prototype Table

Taking my three Conceptual spans and three household items and combining them into a 3x3 diagram containing 9 total prototypes.

Selected Prototype

3D Bridge Process

Mechanism Movement

Views

Renderings

Final Design

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