Toppling Shelves – Visual Information
The design blog Core77 posted a snippet about designer Julian Appelius and his Toppling Bookshelf.
“A bookshelf which tips in one direction when books are placed on it, until a rubber stopper stabilize it. The 5° slant means that the books lean gently, giving them stability.” – per Julian Appelius website
Imagine a whole library filled with these. It would add a very interesting visual element to libraries and their layouts. I have noticed in rooms with movable stacks that depending on how the stacks are moved, it impacts the light in the room from the windows. A similar visual shift could happen with these Topple Shelves. Another possible outcome beside a shifting visual aesthetic would be actual visual information. Potentially library staff would know where to shelve returned books based on how the shelves appeared. Shelvers (is that a word?) could just go to the shelves that were shifted a certain direction because these shelves were missing books. I think visual information is vastly underrated these days.
What other visual information do libraries have or should have? For example, I worked in a library where all the reference indexes were located on shelves next to a certain color of carpet.
For more info:
Julian Appelius website (Topple Book Shelf): http://www.julianappelius.de/websiteengl./FramesetMainengl.html
Tags: books, information, layout, libraries, openworklibrary, spaces, visual information
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