Earthquake proof building

DAY 70, LOG ENTRY # 11

First of all I am sorry if I don't the picture or the proof of our building and so I'm just write it down in detailed.

First, we decided the layout of our building, the materials and time.

List of Materials:

+ 30 - 35 Straws

+ 25x25 cm Illustration board

+ 100 pcs. Paper clips

+ 2 meters strings

+ 50 pins (I don't really know the precise number)

+ blood and sweat (I mean hard work)

We had trouble with our first prototype building because it has limited area, we decide that it would be the 23 x 23 cm, we didn't have the precise measurement for the straws. It had a weak foundation and it easily fell down, but on the day before the deadline for submission, we created our 2nd prototype, it took us 4 hours to make but worth it. The 2nd prototype or our final building is the formidable structure, it has the smaller area than the 1st prototype. We hypothesized that if we use the paper clips as the skeleton that would support our building. Also we decided that the building has a smaller area so that the paper clips has the higher chance to be linked together. 

In testing our building, we ask our beloved and handsome(extra points, JK) teacher, Mr. Robbie Yasi, on what is the weight of the rice bag then he replied "more or less as the weight of the iPhone" and so we test that and it didn't fell down, for some reason the strongest part is the middle part of our building because it has small area, embedded with 3 or 4 paper clips. I think it don't have weak spots because of the same process we did for the top part of our building. For the strings we put it in the middle and upper part to support the rice bags. The pins are used as to bond the straws together in the base part of our building. We had 5 more straws extra and so we put it in the middle, base part like an X mark, more or less it was a design.