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Brazilian architects YTA have converted the spare room of a house into a multimedia library where pine floorboards and industrial lighting climb the walls.

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Some of the pine boards also fold forwards from the concrete block walls to create shelves for storing books.

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On the far wall, boards fold up from the floor to create a stand for a television, revealing a base of stark concrete below.

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A desk is positioned along the back wall of the room, while other furniture and miscellaneous items are scattered around elsewhere and electrical sockets are integrated within the lighting grids.

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Photography is by André Paterlini.

Here’s some more information from YTA:

Digital Library – Retro-nology

At YTÅ, we believe in the essence of materials, in rationalizing resources and in optimizing elements when creating our projects and environments.

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This library materialized these three concepts and created a space where high-tech contrasts with raw matter, returns to its origins, creating dialogue and balance.

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The space is made up of juxtaposed layers:

the concrete base, the wooden shell, the metal wrapping.

All these elements are exposed, made evident and work together.

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As the main character, certified pine wood boards run, fold and unfold themselves throughout the room, wrapping the books in their own original media, closing the cycle.

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Technology here is in favour of the user, allowing him to control his whole environment (audio, video, lighting, temperature, safety) through a tablet, as well as connecting him to the world through online navigation. Making a statement, vintage elements maintain the memory of the analogic and books and magazines are available at arm’s reach, for they are, as we believe, irreplaceable.

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This project was built in a family home, located in Ribeirao Preto – state of São Paulo, in Brazil.

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