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One cubic metre education Project: Urban furniture - Bookshelf Team: : Dr.-Ing. Volker Koch, Cornelia Holsten, Haifeng Zhang Support: Aluform GmbH, Bad Rappenau Year of Construction: 2013 Product: ALUCOBOND® Anthracite Grey, DIBOND® Red, ALUCORE® White What is going to happen to our society if we become wholly reliant on digital means of communicating or storing knowledge? This might well be one of the questions which Cornelia Holsten from Karlsruhe asked herself. In keeping with the slogan which translates as: “Resistance against the loss of the printed word”, she created urban furniture to provide a free book exchange for everyone. The system functions on a basis of mutual trust and respect. Cornelia Holsten contacted the Architecture faculty at KIT Karlsruhe and sponsored the student competition “Urban furniture bookshelves”, with the proviso that the shelves should be suitable for a longer period of use outdoors. The winner, Haifeng Zhang, designed a cubic volume uniting two classical bookcases for a variety of book formats, a shelf for paperbacks as well as an information board. The student work group had backing and support for further planning and details from KIT faculty members, from 3A Composites GmbH and from the company Aluform. The base of the cupboard consists of rectangular tubes forming a steel supporting structure resembling 3-D lattice work. Filling the lattice with gravel or sand is designed to guarantee stability. An ALUCORE® panel fixed to the latticework constitutes the backbone of the bookshelves, forms both rear walls of the bookshelves and bears the weight of the books and the wind load. ALUCORE® panels are used at the sides to provide the unit with additional stability. The anthracite grey ALUCOBOND® skin not only offers necessary protection from the weather but it is also an attractive feature. DIBOND® is used as cladding and adds a touch of colour. Enthusiastic response to urban furniture. Das Stadtmöbel hat regen Zuspruch. Forms & Elements 12/2014 24


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