Geometry of The Crumrine Deck

Ross Crumrine March 26, 2014 Math Period - 2

This deck was constructed at our house in 2013. The old deck, built in 1968, was torn down and a new up to date and safer deck was built. It is built off of our kitchen that connects into the living room, and a lower deck off the lower level is parallel to the top deck and it has support beams that use tons of geometry under that. It took about two months to tear down and build the new one. I am interested in this topic because I watched the forty-five year old deck being torn down and the new one being constructed. It was really interesting to watch the builders as they built it. Every day a little bit more of the deck would be built little by little and we would look out our kitchen window and see it come together day by day. This project relates to geometry because there are many angles, lines and geometry shapes in the deck. We took pictures as it was being torn down, built, and how it looks now. The deck is a rectangular shape with additional rectangles along the side of the house. The sides are also rectangular planes with glass sides. As I talked about in my keynote, the deck uses vertical angles, supplementary angles, complementary angles, obtuse and acute angles, parallel planes, transversals and right angles and perpendicular angles. We took measurements and highlighted them in my pictures. The deck was built a certain way to be strong in an earthquake. There are building codes for how it should be built to be safe on a hill in an earthquake. We had to build a new deck because ours was very old and if there was an earthquake it could tear out a part of the house if it came down. Now there are no worries because

Ross Crumrine March 26, 2014 Math Period - 2 our new deck follows all of the codes and regulations so whenever there is an earthquake the entire cross bracing with all of the geometric angles will hold. I have come to the conclusion that without geometry there would not even be a deck on our house. Plus, we would not even have a house, phones or anything because geometry is in everything.

Bibliography
http://www.math - kitecture.com/geometry.htm http://architecture.about.com/od/ideasapproaches/a/geometry.htm