With sticks, glue and string second-year Architecture students have decorated the Art and Architecture building with incredible bridges.

Architecture 232 or Statics class is a course designed to teach concepts of structures and physics. This year, for the second year in a row, 232 students were faced with a very interesting project.

Allie Ross Mathison, Andy Pittman, Michelle Jasper, Liz Simpson, Katherine Dike and Patrick Queisser, all second-year students, were grouped together to make a "triangular tapering arch bridge." The groups were given nine days to design and build their bridge and each group had a different design concept.

Queisser says that it took them over 30 hours to construct the bridge which resembles the St. Louis Arch. To make things harder the groups were only allowed to use glue, sticks, string and tape.

This is the second year in a row that the bridge project has been assigned, but it used to be on the syllabus around 10 years ago Queisser said. "They decided to have us a do the project again because the program is up for accreditation this year and it showcases what we can do." 

Queisser's group's bridge is near eight feet long and can been seen hanging on the third floor of the Art and Architecture building.