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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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Over 200 cubes display products by coffee brand Illy at this temporary shop in Milan.

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Above: photograph by Federico Rizzo

Designed by architect Caterina Tiazzoldi of Turin and New York, the Illy shop is furnished with nothing but the white cubes, which are exactly sized to fit coffee tins and espresso machines inside.

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A counter, tasting table and rubbish bins are also made from the cubes, as are lights affixed to the ceiling.

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Above: photograph by Federico Rizzo

We recently rounded up all of our stories about pop-up shops, see more of them here.

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Above: photograph by Federico Rizzo

Photography is by Luca Campigotto, apart from where otherwise stated.

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Here’s a bit more text about the concept from Caterina Tiazzoldi:

The concept for a reconfigurable store, characterized by different modulations of a single element, a “cube” which is 45x45cm-squared base.

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Using a grasshopper definition it has been parametric device, it has been possible to manipulate the cube physical properties by editing depth, thickness, opacity, length and explosions.

The combinatory logic – inspired by genetic algorithms process – permits to perform over 3000 configurationsof the same object.

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The shop is created by 200 cubes and specifically designed to adapt to different sizes of Illy Café products.

Small variation of the same modules permitted to derive the tasting tables, desk counter, storage, lighting system, video frames, communication space, and recycling bins.

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By adapting the different modules according to the performances required, (accessibility of the products from the outside, number of item to display, level of transparency desired, product size) it becomes feasible to represent different characteristics of the Illy products, while the solution also allows fitting it into different locations.

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The system engender from the walls and the ceiling, creating a disoriented expansion.

The differentiated space dimensions appears to become one, transforming it into a game where user’s sight shifts from an object to another discovering the inside.

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Design: Caterina Tiazzoldi
Team: Lorenza Croce, Federico Rizzo, Roberta Musso, Alessio Primavera, Monica Pianosi, Mauro Fassino, Zsofia Ujhelyi, Illy Caffe’ Art Direction