Workshop

Bridging the Gap

Constructing, building and testing

Children try out the forces in a bridge with their own bodies.

Testing with your own body
© Architekturzentrum Wien

Bridges shape the face of our landscapes and cities. Arched bridges, chain bridges, suspension bridges, monkey bridges, cable-stayed bridges or body bridges – in the Architekturzentrum Wien you can learn more about the history of this important engineering structure. In the framework of the workshop we take a playful look at different kinds of bridge structures. Compression and tension forces are explained with the help of structural exercises. Afterwards we build either a model or a bridge in 1:1 scale, the load-bearing capacity of which we also test immediately.

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