Designed by Caterina Tiazzoldi, it uses advanced digital tools in formal exploration of new configurations of the same bookshelf.
Initially conceived for the Fashion Firm GB Sportelli, Parametric Bookshelves work as described below.
Each customer introduces data (length, height, preferred colours) and the parametric system responds by automatically changing some of the attributes (depth, thickness, colour saturation). In this way each customer is assured of a unique configuration.Each PB as a code and a serial number that warranty is originality and uniqueness.
Parametric Furniture, particularly Parametric Bookshelves, helps develop and produce an infinite number of unique pieces, tailored to the customer's requirements, using a single model.
The application of a large number of iterations to a limited number of rules leads to a level of formal complexity and sophistication which it is impossible to obtain from traditional processes.
Parametric Bookshelves respond to the desire for uniqueness so incompatible with the standards of the contemporary industry.
In the past, only skilled craftsmen and women could respond to the user’s need for individuality. Today’s evolution of technical tools (such as computer-assisted fabrication) and advanced design techniques have opened new possibilities for a more personal approach and humanised the industrial design of today and tomorrow.
The vision is not only to customise a piece. Parametric Bookshelves transform the production process and give to each user the power and tools to be the creator of their own environment.