Archventil
International architectural firm in Milan

Giralibri, the interactive bookstore

Area

D 1,200, D 370

Client

Private

Year

2014

Location

Milan, Italy

Interior Design & Product Design

Giralibri is a bookstore that interacts with the user and reflects the user’s interests: its movement, determined by the changing nature of what it contains, gives rise to a kind of dialogue with the reader by offering its own answer to the questions he or she may ask in reference to his or her own relationship with reading. Like Stem, Giralibri was created to respond more carefully to the needs associated with the relationship between the user and the book object.

Project Details.

The bookcase is a wheel-shaped wall structure. The wheel is equipped with special pins in the shape of bolts from which the bookcases, or metal baskets whose quantity is defined by the user, are hung. The kit contains adhesive letters with which inscriptions can be formed and glued to the sides by the wheel. The lettering defines the themes or genres of books of interest to the reader by reflecting their creative or scientific side or simply can indicate books read and books yet to be read. As the user fills the baskets the wheel reacts and turns in the direction of the heaviest weight basket indicating the dominant theme with the arrow. The bookwheels can form bookcase groups of various sizes and different numbers of bins, thus allowing the end user to customize, including through the choice of material, both the bookcases and the space in which they are placed.

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