Venice, the City of Pillars!
Today was an amazing day for the Hancock Building Inc. company. After doing the experiment about cylindrical pillars, we saw how they are used in the real world.
Venice is a city entirely built on cylindrical pillars which were driven into the mud. Some are from the year 7 A.D when the city was initially created on a series of low shallow islands in a lagoon of the coast of Italy. These pillars were gradually built on and added to to create the city that is now Venice! Isn’t that amazing! An entire city built on pillars of wood! Today the city is slowly sinking as the pillars sink into the mud and the tides carry silt and the sea floor away. But the pillars themselves are still strong and have survived because of the strength of the shape of the pillars. In the pictures below you can see some examples of the wood pillars with the brink built on top of it.
It is an amazing and beautiful city. Here is another image of the city showing the whole thing from ground up.
Here are a couple of videos that we watched showing Venice and how it works.
Venice Backstage. How does Venice work? from Insula spa on Vimeo.
It really fit nicely into our look at the strength of cylindrical pillars and how they are used in real life!