Amazing costructions

Amazing Constructions

Here we will explain why we chose this topic and what is about of one of the museum exhibits, amazing buildings.

We’ve chosen this topic because it’s related to items we are studying at school such as the balance of a building. And we think it’s a good exposition to complement our knowledge about the topic and maybe address us to a kind of degrees.   
                    
Amazing Constructions is an exhibit about technical constructions; about bridges and buildings with muscle. This is the place to discover the effects of form, strength and balance. Experiment with wobbly skyscrapers, trembling cables and high-speed lifts. Discover the difference between push and pull power.        

At Amazing Constructions you can also see the eye-catching, eight-metre-high scale model of the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam. Accompanying it are 15 installations about strength, all of which focus on an aspect of construction. These include different building styles, construction methods, building materials and so on. At certain structures you can experiment with some of the basic principles of building.

There we found a reduced exposition of some simple machines that we had studied before in class. Some like the block and tackle, the Maltese cross, a camshaft used in internal combustion engines with pistons...
And we can test the utility of the screw: we moved ourselves up just turning a handle. But we need a lot of revolutions to arrive at the top. Although it was very easy and didn’t need a kit of strength, kids can move it too.

From our point of view, it was a simple exposition but it has a lot of concepts to work deeply and spend a hole morning there.