Architecture students at the University of Texas at San Antonio will have to go back to the drawing board in order to reconstruct their fallen class project in Travis Park.
Weather conditions and probably someone climbing on the sculpture, called “F2,” factored into the collapse of part of the structure Saturday night.
The 15-foot-tall, 40-foot-wide dome made of interlaced wood topped with white spikes has only been in the park since late May [...].
— mysanantonio.com
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Class projects are all fun and games until someone gets trapped under your shitty grid shell.
If they take anything away from this, it should be that engineering is best left to the consultants and people who know about it.
Proof that architecture and engineering should be on the same campus, in the same college, in the same building, have access to all the same tools, and share some classes.
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