Mechanical Lab - Harry Potter Buckbeak

A chained Buckbeak that would like to stand out flight gives life to an optical illusion to be built! By the effect of tension the hippogriff seems to float in the air. A playful experience with a surprising effect, to have fun building and inventing possible solutions and game scenarios with the famous character of Harry Potter. Through the assembly of different components the child concretely verifies which scenarios can come to life from his constructions, giving shape to ideas with their own hands. The fantasy world of Harry Potter comes to life in a model to be built to discover a new constructive principle that depopulates on the web: tensegrity. In attaching the chains to the structure to support Buckbeak, the child experiences how tension works to create structural integrity, so that the hippogriff appears to be stuck in midair.