newspaper project

Our first 3d project was to make a structure out of newspaper that could hold up a cement block. My first idea was to take newspaper and crumble them into little balls. I feel like a crumbled up ball takes up more space than a sheet, and also that the paper would just be compressed, not toople over or tear. But i soon realized i needed some way of holding all the balls together or the balls would slide and get pushed away under the weight of the block. so i took all the newspaper balls, and bundled them together  by placing the balls in the middle of page of newspaper and wrapping them up into it. each of these bundles were about as big as the cement block itself. It was working up to a point and i got a measurement of 7 inches. But i wanted to try to do better and buid on to it. So i made serveral more bundles. But i tested the structure several times and each time it tore the newspaper a little. so eventually the strucure was destroyed and I had to start over. seeing as how i only had aboiut 15 minutes left i hurried, tearing a new stack of newspaper into 4ths and stacking them on top of each other. I think i got like 3 inches or something like that.