Monthly Archives: October 2013

The Book Tower

The idea of our design is to build a tower consisting of columns and mezzanines of books, using strong joints that can give us the stability and support a lot of weight, in this case, books, which are accommodated in a simple way so that they can be taken out from the tower easily. The [...]

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The shelf

An arrangement that connects books vertically and horizontally forming a shelf like structure that could hold books. Units are made by  interlocking the leaves of two or more books.

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The Scaler Joint

THE SCALER JOINT Explores the possibility of making  partitions using books of varying sizes. Smaller books (mostly paperback) are interlocked with larger (hardbound) books at mid height. This sort of arrangement tries to take advantage of the sizes and character of each book ie; it uses the strength of the hardbound but relies on the [...]

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El Vol de la Llibertat

The considerations above books and our project are mostly about their duality. Back and front, when they are open, hard and soft, inner and outer parts, or lighter and whiter in, heavier and darker out…or even flexible the pages, motionless the cover. Though this we came directly with a main division of this two parts, [...]

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A: Bookshelf Column B: Joints for dome

         

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