Preliminary Designs

Text Box: My second preliminary design was geared towards a cantilever bridge. Due to the cantilever style of bridge, being thicker towards the outside and thinner towards the middle, it was easier to design towards making it move. Also I wanted to make this bridge act as much as possible like my moveable objects. The transformation was more horizontal than vertical. The vertical transformation was mainly used to help support the structure its self, where the horizontal structure came in to support the movable gears and swing arms. From beginning to end the bridge transformed greatly. It went from being a simple cantilever bridge, to a bridge that opens and closes wide and high enough for a thirty by forty passage. Along the way, the bridge picked up a great deal of structure to help support the bridge to make sure that every part was strong enough to hold up on its own.