lecture report

this is the work place where Theo

Jansen create his own animals ---

strandbeest . He want to leave his

creatures on the beach forever.

Due to the fact that his strandbeest will survive in the beach, his creatures will face a lot of problems include the energy of his creatures , avoid the sea water which can damage the leg system, and also how to survive in a storm. In order to cope with this kind of problems, the most important step is evolution. The first strandbeest he created is required by human force. With the time went on, he found another way to force it which is the wind. The second step of evolution is add features in the back of beach animals(strandbeest). By adding those features the strandbeest can walk by themselves(forced by the wind). The third step is that restore the wind energy which he called this system is “stomach” system. The wind energy went into the plastic bottles and restored, the wind in the bottle also can help the brain system.
The challenge part of strandbeest is brain system. When the summer time comes, a lot of thunder storms also comes. This storms have huge damage for his creatures. So he need a brain to tell the strandbeest how to react when their is a storm comes. The brain system is made by the bottles with wind energy, a plastic tube is linked with the bottles when the strandbeest went to the sea, the plastic tube is full of water, the wind in the bottles will push to create a sound. Thus people know that the strandbeest went to the sea. The unbelievable part is that he called “nose” part it is a hammer which can deeply tack it into the sand near the beach. When the storm is coming the hammer can push the tubes into the sand to help the strandbeest survive.