At first, I thought this was impossible. How could a sheet of paper hold 8 pounds? I was soon to find out. Since the height had to be 12 inches, it was obvious that the paper had to be folded, longitudial. When I began to sketch my ideas done, the factors that came to mind was stability, then strength. The most stable geometrical form was found to be the triangle and the circle. It wasn't until later that I found out the key of strength for paper was to have a strong inner structure. In the above picture, it shows the towers that I chose to make and test.

     In the beginning of this project we only had to develop one idea for a tower. After finding out that most structures couldn't hold 8 pounds, the weight now had to reach 15 pounds and we then had to develop 3 ideas to test. The towers with inner structures are the three towers in my second effort to reach the 15 pound endurance. In my first attempt, my plain yet efficient circle tower with no inner structure held 8.5 pounds. My second attempt proved that it could be done, when 2 of the structures made the 15 pound weight limit.