AR5321 fund raiser

We had a really fun technolgy lecture today. Usually, tech lectures would be dry and boring with an attendence of about 30%. But the attendence was unusually high for today's class which was the first of 3 tech seminar wrap-ups. The first reason is that the fantastic structural models done by those in the structures group will be displayed and appraised by the 2 structures tutors, which you can see in the picture (on the far left is Joseph Lim, the no.2 guy of the architecture department and to his right is Brendan McNiven from Arup). The second reason is that the models are going to be loaded to test their strength. Boring, you may say but Joseph, at the start of the lecture, asked to borrow a few laptops from the class ;seeing how nicely he asked and thinking that he was having some technical problems with the computer, a couple of students handed over their precious babies. However, to the horror of the laptop owners and the amusement of the others, Joseph then made known his intention to use the laptops as the load to test the models. One by one, the laptops were loaded with everyone keeping their ears open to detect the first cracking sound to appear from the model. Luckily,the various have used very good glue to build their models (oh yah, and also using sound structural principles). Most of the models survived unscathed with only a couple of minor casualties. All the action really made for an entetaining lecture, which is somewhat rare in our architecture school. This could be an idea for a performance at the next NKF charity show.