Comments on: House made of bookcases http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 03:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138444 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138444 LOL...if one can afford to have a house like this built, one can afford to have someone come in and dust it. For the rest of us...I have four huge bookcases in my little home and it takes a real effort to keep up with them. ;>) LOL…if one can afford to have a house like this built, one can afford to have someone come in and dust it. For the rest of us…I have four huge bookcases in my little home and it takes a real effort to keep up with them. ;>)

]]> By: zgz http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138965 zgz Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138965 Where will they keep their 360+mm tall books... Where will they keep their 360+mm tall books…

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138465 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138465 I always figured the bookshelves in Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town were a personal fantasy. I always figured the bookshelves in Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town were a personal fantasy.

]]> By: coop http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138725 coop Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138725 From the article... "In addition to its unique structure, the outer wall employs the construction techniques of a traditional Japanese storehouse Dozou. The bamboo net wall foundation layer was attached to the lattice structure and the clay and straw mixture was applied to the foundation by the trowel. Then the red cedar panels forms exterior wall. The interior clay wall was finished with white plaster. These techniques are in accordance with urban fireproofing specifications, as well as maintaining a suitably humid environment for the storage of books." From the article…

“In addition to its unique structure, the outer wall employs the construction techniques of a traditional Japanese storehouse Dozou. The bamboo net wall foundation layer was attached to the lattice structure and the clay and straw mixture was applied to the foundation by the trowel. Then the red cedar panels forms exterior wall. The interior clay wall was finished with white plaster. These techniques are in accordance with urban fireproofing specifications, as well as maintaining a suitably humid environment for the storage of books.”

]]> By: FutureNerd http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138981 FutureNerd Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138981 Funny, the picture reminded me immediately of a guest house I spent a week in. The walls (including stairway sides) were retrofitted with bookshelves up to the second-floor ceiling... and filled with books about Eastern religions, Buddhism mainly. This was the servant's quarters of a pair of 18th century historical buildings in New England, and the rule is the outside, and especially the part facing the street, has to keep looking like it did, but not the inside. For instance there was a skylight in the room upstairs. It is totally cool, a religious experience, to spend time in a house made of books. Funny, the picture reminded me immediately of a guest house I spent a week in. The walls (including stairway sides) were retrofitted with bookshelves up to the second-floor ceiling… and filled with books about Eastern religions, Buddhism mainly.

This was the servant’s quarters of a pair of 18th century historical buildings in New England, and the rule is the outside, and especially the part facing the street, has to keep looking like it did, but not the inside. For instance there was a skylight in the room upstairs.

It is totally cool, a religious experience, to spend time in a house made of books.

]]> By: Gulliver http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138990 Gulliver Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138990 <blockquote> WANT. </blockquote> Oh yes. Me want. This put the library I built to shame. Now I have a massive case of bookcase envy }:-( Can't let the religious folks win the DIY race. We have to close the shelf gap, people. I'll be in FreeCAD if anyone needs me...

WANT.

Oh yes. Me want.

This put the library I built to shame. Now I have a massive case of bookcase envy }:-(

Can’t let the religious folks win the DIY race. We have to close the shelf gap, people. I’ll be in FreeCAD if anyone needs me…

]]> By: peterbruells http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138481 peterbruells Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138481 Well, that's for archival, not for common-day usage. Different needs. Well, that’s for archival, not for common-day usage.

Different needs.

]]> By: GreenJello http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138242 GreenJello Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138242 Outdated? I love bookshelves, and we're lucky enough to have a beautiful library built into one room of our home. However, with the rush to digital media, and a drop in physical books sales I can't help but to wonder if these sorts of things are going to become more and more relics of a more physical past, only of interest to collectors of antiquities...... Outdated? I love bookshelves, and we’re lucky enough to have a beautiful library built into one room of our home. However, with the rush to digital media, and a drop in physical books sales I can’t help but to wonder if these sorts of things are going to become more and more relics of a more physical past, only of interest to collectors of antiquities……

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138243 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138243 nice but then there is the age old question,how do you dust it? nice but then there is the age old question,how do you dust it?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1139267 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1139267 Um, reading light? Um, reading light?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138756 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138756 The completed roof is only 9" thick thats incredible! The completed roof is only 9″ thick thats incredible!

]]> By: yclept http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138250 yclept Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138250 Wait...the floor can be the height of any of the shelves? Zowie. Also WANT. I have 17 more boxes of books and other media in my garage on top of the 17 I already hauled into my office and storage shed. A house like this could swallow those books and still leave me a few more lifetimes of collecting. Wait…the floor can be the height of any of the shelves? Zowie. Also WANT. I have 17 more boxes of books and other media in my garage on top of the 17 I already hauled into my office and storage shed. A house like this could swallow those books and still leave me a few more lifetimes of collecting.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138251 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138251 Considering the fact that the Internet Archive is starting to back up their digital books on paper... I dont think paper books are really going anywhere that soon. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/internet-archive-backs-up-digital-books-on-paper.ars Considering the fact that the Internet Archive is starting to back up their digital books on paper… I dont think paper books are really going anywhere that soon. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/internet-archive-backs-up-digital-books-on-paper.ars

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1139275 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1139275 One overlooks these petty details when one is reading, and then mom makes us feel guilty One overlooks these petty details when one is reading, and then mom makes us feel guilty

]]> By: JoshP http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138515 JoshP Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138515 @anon with an air compressor, of course and two... for a few dollars more you could put offset screwin bacK plates behind certain on used shelves that would hold pictures or whatnot. @anon with an air compressor, of course

and two… for a few dollars more you could put offset screwin bacK plates behind certain on used shelves that would hold pictures or whatnot.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138264 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138264 You will never delete books from those who love them, children may eventually grow up without ever smelling the scent pulped tree, glue, ink and dust, that is the smell of my summers in the library of my home town. But all they will have to do is walk into one of our homes and they will know and maybe come to love that scent again. You will never delete books from those who love them, children may eventually grow up without ever smelling the scent pulped tree, glue, ink and dust, that is the smell of my summers in the library of my home town. But all they will have to do is walk into one of our homes and they will know and maybe come to love that scent again.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1139802 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1139802 "How do you dust it?" Often. But it would be soooo worth it. WANT! “How do you dust it?”
Often.
But it would be soooo worth it.
WANT!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1139037 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1139037 No not going to fade away into the past units will just hold Cd's and DVDs instead of books No not going to fade away into the past units will just hold Cd’s and DVDs instead of books

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138277 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138277 There will always be books. Sorry. There will always be books. Sorry.

]]> By: EH http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138278 EH Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138278 Having those tables be the same dimensions as the bookcase nooks is a bit dizzying, but I LOVE that part of the floor is a desk (cf. chair at the bottom of the image above). Also: shouldn't there be a ladder somewhere, or does that contravene some aspect of Kumiko or Islamicism? What of the pattern of white backing squares? Having those tables be the same dimensions as the bookcase nooks is a bit dizzying, but I LOVE that part of the floor is a desk (cf. chair at the bottom of the image above). Also: shouldn’t there be a ladder somewhere, or does that contravene some aspect of Kumiko or Islamicism? What of the pattern of white backing squares?

]]> By: PalookaJoe http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138283 PalookaJoe Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138283 Oh the dusting! The dusting! Oh the dusting! The dusting!

]]> By: Amelia_G http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138284 Amelia_G Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138284 That's exquisite! That's my lair right there, except with more windows in the roof. Finally a worthy successor to Henry Petrosky's "The Book on the Bookshelf": the house on the bookshelf. That’s exquisite! That’s my lair right there, except with more windows in the roof.

Finally a worthy successor to Henry Petrosky’s “The Book on the Bookshelf”: the house on the bookshelf.

]]> By: Cherry http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138286 Cherry Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138286 Is that pixel font arabic on the bathroom? What does it read, if so? Is that pixel font arabic on the bathroom? What does it read, if so?

]]> By: Mujokan http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138291 Mujokan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138291 If there's another material, I bet it's exposed concrete. If there’s another material, I bet it’s exposed concrete.

]]> By: jtegnell http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138550 jtegnell Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138550 I'm sure that will be a fun room to clean up after the next earthquake. I’m sure that will be a fun room to clean up after the next earthquake.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138299 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138299 so... no insulation then. so… no insulation then.

]]> By: Mark Slutsky http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138307 Mark Slutsky Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138307 LOL, I believe that "pixel font" is what used to be known as a "mosaic." LOL, I believe that “pixel font” is what used to be known as a “mosaic.”

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138823 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138823 Wow, imagine dusting all those shelves... Pretty great though, I would love this as my house! Wow, imagine dusting all those shelves… Pretty great though, I would love this as my house!

]]> By: Nadreck http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138315 Nadreck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138315 Indeed! Doesn't look like they allowed at least a slit at the back of every shelf, as per industry standard, to allow the dust to fall down the back. I also wonder if they remembered to allow for the "X" tonnes of paper weight once the shelves are full. Many are the buildings that have needed (or have suffered!) severe modification due to that classic boo-boo. Indeed! Doesn’t look like they allowed at least a slit at the back of every shelf, as per industry standard, to allow the dust to fall down the back. I also wonder if they remembered to allow for the “X” tonnes of paper weight once the shelves are full. Many are the buildings that have needed (or have suffered!) severe modification due to that classic boo-boo.

]]> By: TheDogIsland http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/house-made-of-bookca.html#comment-1138340 TheDogIsland Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138340 This something that I love, when people become creative and make and build things that one would never think of doing. And there is so much storage space for anything! This something that I love, when people become creative and make and build things that one would never think of doing. And there is so much storage space for anything!

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