Journal Week 1 Compression In this week’s studio, students were divided into groups to build a tower, as tall as possible basing on the concept of ‘compression’. WGBH EducaAon FoundaAon (2000) states that ‘compression is a force that squeezes a material together. The sketch above shows the concept of compression when there is a load on a bridge. A sketch of one of the blocks given to build This sketch shows my group’s idea of stacking the blocks as the base. Spaces are le= in between each block to distribute the compression force even wider to improve stability of the building. The planned base of my tower started off as an octagon shape. The ma The base of the building. In this picture it can be seen that a different arrangement of the blocks are used for a number of layers. The purpose of this change was to increase the stability of the building. The concept of ‘compression’ sAll applies