Three Inspiring Images

This bridge designed by my Engineering Design group in early 2013 is one of my prize creations. It is an arch and cable-stay bridge made predominantly from cardboard. What I love most about its design is the symmetry we were able to achieve with the arch which appears solid but is actually hollow, deeming the string supports holding up the keystone of the arch necessary. This design incorporates curves below the road and straight lines above the road for geometric variation.

The Great Wall of China embodies all human feats that have ever been made in the field of architecture and construction. It undulates beautifully over such a lush landscape in the warmer months and such an unforgiving landscape in the wintertime, dotted here and there by monolithic guardhouses. The shear incline of its slopes allows it to uniquely capture light in its rustic stone walls, making it such an impressive structure with broad history.

I visited Beijing late in 2013, one of the prime reasons being to experience the city's archicture; in particular, the Bird's Nest. Experiencing it's sheer mass is nothing like viewing it in a photograph; the stadium's unorthodox widening around the top leans over the insignificant crowds who circumnavigate it from below.