Houston! We have a problem...

The first day of class was the project that we had to come up with for NASA, for some kind of air conditioner (cinderblock), with only one newspaper and a roll of masking tape. So my first idea was to roll up the newspaper into sturdy, think rolls and tape them all together, but then I remembered someone saying that the triangle was the strongest shape...kind of a wrong move for me. This is because I tried to make it taller once I had the triangle going; but then it all spiraled down to nothing when I put the cinderblock on it.

my failure... >>>>>>>>>>>>