Fabrication

The students have now decided, that they are going to create two different products.


We will split up the fabrication into two different tasks and divide the students into groups of 2-3 persons. The groups work on either the vinylcutter or the lasercutter.

The Vinylcutter project:

The group on the vinylcutter will be working on dots for the floor that will lead visitors in the library in the right direction. The dots will create 3 lines on the floor, placed in the shape of a fan.


1.st line: Will lead the visitors to the left, finding nonfiction literature. Inside the dots there will be words like “Travel”, “Sports”, “History” ect.


2.nd line: Will lead the visitors straight ahead, finding small childrens books. Because the youngest student can’t read yet, the dot will show small pictures of characters from childrens books like “Winnie the Pooh”, “Peter Pan” ect.


3.rd line: Will lead the visitors to the right, finding fiction. The dots here will say things like “Harry potter”, “Lord of the rings”, “Robinson Crusoe” ect.

The lasercutter project:

The groups working on the lasercutter, will create symbols and icon in acrylic and wood to place between the books on the shelfs. The idea is that all these figures is sticking out of the books in the hole library, helping visitor to quickly navigate through themes and well known book series.


The laser cutted icons will be placed mainly in the nonfiction and the fiction section.


In the nonfiction section there will be icons like “a globe” between the books about countries, “an elephant” between the animal books ect.


In the fiction section there will be small silhouettes of book characters.