1. Buildfest
STRUCTURE

2. Challenge
Apply basic structural principles to create a
sturdy seating scenario with the following
materials with lumber and ratchet straps.

3. Structural Principle: Post and Lintel

4. Structural Principle
Support
Support

5. Laugier’s Primitive Hut
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Marc-Antoine Laugier is considered one of the
first modern architectural philosopher from
18th Century
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Believed in the essential beauty of classical
architecture
○ Columns needed to be free and not
embedded in walls
○ Putting a column on a pedestal was like
putting a second pair of legs under your
legs

10. Structural Principle

11. Structural Principle
Support
Support

12. Structural Principle
SPAN
Support
Support

14. Structural Principle

15. Structural Principle
SPAN
SUPPORT
SUPPORT

16. What about this room?