Weston Middle School
Technology/Engineering Course Materials
The cobweb is a natural structure that exists purely in tension.
Harborlights Pavilion, Boston, MA.- part compression, part tension
Buildings, bridges, and other structures are not only functional, but need to be beautiful as well and connect to their surroundings-- the forms of the Zakim Bridge echoes not only the Bunker Hill Monument, but the stays of the USS Constitution
Revised
January 2011 by Jonathan Dietz,
dietzj@mail.weston.org