Boing Boing today linked to this most amazing of houses, located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is called the Shelf-Pod; it was created by the Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio; and it is basically a house in which all the walls are bookshelves. Or rather, all the walls are shelves into which we feel books should be placed (it was built to hold the extensive library of the person who commissioned it). The architects used a lattice process that looks like this:
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Which seems simple enough to me. I wonder if I could replicate this in my next fit of home improvement…
(Via Boing Boing via Core 77)
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