Pasta Builder 2019
On April 10-12, 2019, creative contest Pasta Builder 2019 was held at SPbGASU. The participants showed their imagination, teamwork and construction knowledge. This mass event gathered the students from Russian universities and Belarus. Petri Himmi from Saimaa University of Applied Sciences (Finland) visited the contest.
The teams competed in The Highest (Towers) and The Longest Structure (Bridges) construction.
This year 12 teams from SPbGASU faced the participants from:
- Tyumen Industrial University,
- Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (Sibstrin),
- Ufa State Petroleum Technological University,
- Astrakhan State Technical University,
- Moscow Architectural Institute,
- Saint Petersburg Mining University,
- Tambov State Technical University,
- Siberian Federal University,
- Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University,
- Minsk State Architectural and Construction College (Belarus),
- Belgorod State Technological University named after V. G. Shukhov,
- Magnitogorsk State Technical University.
Pasta Builder 2019 Opening Ceremony From left to right: Irina Nuryeva, Head of the Office for Social Welfare and Extracurricular Activities, Egor Ilin, Head of SPbGASU Student Council, Aleksandr Panin, Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Irina Lapina, Vice Rector for External Relations and Youth Policy
Aleksandr Panin: ‘You’ll need to use your knowledge in architecture, building structures, construction mechanics and theory of stability’.
The Contest
On the first day the participants got pasta and modeling clay and started to build towers. 21 teams were working for four hours, but unfortunately not all the towers survived till the next day when the jury summarized the first round.
Albina Muratova, captain of team from Ufa State Petroleum Technological University: ‘It is the third time our University team takes part in Pasta Builder. We enjoyed our journey to Saint Petersburg, visit to SPbGASU and meeting new friends. Some of our students think of getting their Master’s degrees at SPbGASU’.
Shukhovtsy from Belgorod State Technological University named after V. G. Shukhov have already won Pasta Builder and this time were also primed for victory. Svetlana Zolotareva, captain: ‘Our team consists of third and fourth year students majoring in Industrial and Civil Engineering. Our University organizes such contest, too, and we have won the Towers category at home’.
The jury headed by Svetlana Golovina, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs and Head of the Department of Architectural and Engineering Constructions, estimated the works by efficiency, stability, strength, performance and architectural expressiveness.
The winners of Pasta Builder 2019:
The Highest Structure (Towers)
Gold: I-BALKA (SPbGASU)
Silver: SKVAD (Tambov State Technical University)
Bronze: Pomory (Northern Arctic Federal University)
Construction Style
Team of Ufa State Petroleum Technological University
The Longest Structure (Bridges)
Gold: Stroityata (Magnitogorsk State Technical University)
Silver: Shukhovtsy (Belgorod State Technological University named after V. G. Shukhov)
Bronze: SKVAD (Tambov State Technical University)
Original Constructive Solution
Tortsy MK (Tambov State Technical University)
Architectural Expressiveness
Torre Del Ponte (Tyumen Industrial University)
Organization
SPbGASU students Maksim Petrovsky, Anastasia Krementsova and Kirill Bezdenelny were the members of Pasta Builder Organizing Committee. Kirill Bezdenelny: ‘This was my first experience as contest organizer and that was really interesting. This year team selection was stricter than later. We gave the participants modeling clay and pasta. The guys had to adapt to new contest rules, because the pasta for Towers was thicker and less than usual. The Organizing Committee also helped the participant to accommodate at the dormitory and solve problems. We advised free places for students in Saint Petersburg’.
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Text by Elena Shulgina
Translated by Anna Efimova
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