Digitally Fabricated Bookshelf | dbd Studio
Digitally Fabricated Bookshelf, image courtesy of dbd Studio
Washington-based dbd Studio recently has completed an organic bookshelf specifically designed and built for a condo in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington DC, it stretched from floor to ceiling and overhead, and terminated at the existing bulkhead.
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dbd Studio has recently completed a custom bookshelf specifically designed and built for a condo in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington DC. The owner had a severe lack of storage for household items, as well as no display options for objects collected from his worldwide travels.
Digitally Fabricated Bookshelf, image courtesy of dbd Studio
The large bookshelf serves as both an art piece in itself and a functional storage/display system. An organic curving surface was created in Rhino that stretched from floor to ceiling and overhead, terminating at the existing bulkhead. 17 sheets of 3/4″ birch plywood were then CNC milled to notch together and form the undulating, gridded mass.
Digitally Fabricated Bookshelf, image courtesy of dbd Studio
Special attention was paid to avoid interfering with the recessed lights, sprinkler heads, air vents and fire alarms along the hallway ceiling.
Digitally Fabricated Bookshelf, image courtesy of dbd Studio
The vertical plywood components were spaced to avoid them or notched to allow them to function. dbd Studio (Design/Build/Develop) is located in the Washington, DC area specializing in restaurant/retail and custom furniture.
Digitally Fabricated Bookshelf, drawing courtesy of dbd Studio
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Fantastic bookshelf!! Wow, a totally different design of a bookshelf, or even just a shelf in general. The design is very unconventional that it’s my first time to see such design of a shelf. As I can see the images, I believed it took them quite some time to produce this structure. The details and the production of it is almost a wonder to me. And the vector lights on the first image, are they really real or just a photo edit? I’m thinking of their purpose if they are real.
The vector lights were just an LED light we played with during a long exposure. The randomness of it played well with the undulations of the shelves, and I like the way the image came out.
Thanks for your feedback!
It would be fun to nuild those shelves. I like the varying depths of the shelves. This is more practical than it may first appear.