Hand-made vs Machine-made protocols » Book

Structure as book component

Tobias Øhrstrøm — Mon, 26 May 2014 12:44:23 +0000

The pages from a book as a lightweight component. The whole structure is one new book with a new written story. Lightweight structure merge with vegetation. The structure grows as the story.

Roof of covers and columns of content CCC

Tobias Øhrstrøm — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:17:34 +0000

Maintaning the capacity to read a book in a structure for supporting a book-dome.
In the roofstructure you can see the covers of the book. In the columns you can feel and read the books.

DOME
Overlapping connection working in tension by the own weight of the books.
Added materials could be resin or screws to reinforce the connection.

BOOKSHELF COLUMN

Shelf and columns out of books.
The books are reable in the column.
Added materials can be a wire to hold the column into place and a clips keeping the corners stif.

COMBINATION OF COLUMN AND DOME

Next step is to make add new materials to reinforce the structure.

FoldingSystem

rashasukkarieh — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:50:07 +0000

Folding System

Shelving, Partition, Skin

The materials besides books could be tension cables and clips.

The books interlock and form a strong folding connection. The Edge of each book acts as a hinge and gives the system a dynamic characteristic.
The uses can be skin for the structure, shelving, and internal partitions.

The folding system changes in size when interaction with end users is happening. The system extends when books are added and shrinks when books are removed.

The system also provides an interactive space with the surrounding as the skin opens and closes.

Stitching Up Books

sahilsharma — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:30:23 +0000

Stitching up Books

Creating a thin wall by shuffling the pages of books partly into each other and them attached to each other in row as show in the image, the idea is to create a latticed screen with all the covers and some pages of the books open and could have highlighted paras for people to read in all the different books making the screen a very interactive wall, and also there is a play of light and shade in the interior part that gives an expression of, ” how books are lighting people’s minds”.

El Vol de la Llibertat

giacomofiorani — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:43:18 +0000

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, imaging the cover as the strong outer surfaces of the pavilion, and the pages as real content, the warm they can make you feel, the beauty made by the color of the pages and their shape once bended, as in the picture.
So our action was to insert a structure, as you can see in the drawn scheme, between these parts, in the only empty space inside this solid structure as a book is. A structure where a steel string supports them, and at the same time smaller X strings keep the cover up.
The final result is though as a book in a bigger scale, maintaining the sense of discovery and mystery that every book has, and the feeling of knowledge once you are in, in the pavilion and in the middle of a book. As architects, working with shapes more than words, we design the pages bending them as a sort of origami in order to make them communicate. A communication which can have lots of different readings, but mostly well connected with the sense of freedom, these pages will look to fly as free birds, or a dove, sign of peace, as well as the sheets are white.

A: Bookshelf Column B: Joints for dome

Tobias Øhrstrøm — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 18:26:11 +0000

A: BOOKSHELF COLUMN

The main idea deals with on how use books as an element for a structure and a bookshelf.
And how the structure of books still have the specifications of a book – you should be able to read it.

The design of a simple column is to open 4 books. Place a book upon the books. And a new layer upon that…
In that way, the vertical forces goes through the corners and down to the earth.
You are only able to read the book, if we are using hardback books. We made to prototypes. The one to the left is made of hardbacks and is very solid and you are able to read the books. The prototype to left is made of soft backs and the whole construction is bending, and all books are not readable.

The columns could be used for a vertical loads for a roof construction.

B: JOINTS FOR DOME

The connection between the book pages is really strong if you interlay them. Based in this property of the material (books) we realized that by connecting the book in their corners, we are able to create different surfaces. In this case we thought of a dome for the pavilion.