sant`elia | revolving library

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“An aesthetic that comes from the use,
from the original arrangement of the
material”
Antonio Sant’Elia | Futurist Architect
SANT’ELIA | REVOLVING LIBRARY
An idea that takes shape. A tribute to the design, to the informal and relational
space that describes the domestication of the third millennium. An original
adjustment of the shape to the function in order to give life to a furnishing
object that makes the most of the everyday experience.
Frosio interprets the contemporary living trends,
and gives life to a new convivial domestication,
where the house is opened to the others and
it is lived as a relational space. For this reason
we believe that the concept of an object
overcomes its own touchable features and it
extends itself till including the relationships
that it generates and the interaction ways that
make unique the experience of the use. Frosio
products are modular furnishings, they are able
to be appreciated not only for their aesthetical
and useful qualities, for the design efficacy
and the artificial quality, but also for the signal
value that they have inside.
INDICE | INDEX
04. The project
05. Modular and components
07. Sectional and revolving system
09. Modularity of the system
11. The excellence of the execution
14. The design
21. Technical guide
22. Standard colors page
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The adjustable winglets represent a strong
feature of Sant’Elia because they allow to modify
the capacity of the system in accordance with
the needs of who uses the library.
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INFORMAL DESIGN
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OPAQUE VENEERED BLACK
OPAQUE VENEERED RED
OAK & ACRYLIC
H 270
SANT’ELIA | THE PROJECT
Sant’Elia library is a revolving library that turns
around its own axis, besides it is absolutely
modular because it is composed of several
sections, it has a huge capacity and storage, it
finds its own maximum aesthetic expression in
the series compositions of numerous models.
The library is fixed to the ceiling through a
fischer and is fixed to the floor through an anti
slipping base. Sant’Elia rotates thanks to a
suspension bearing (upper and lower). The main
frame is the aluminium tubular. Accessories,
shelves and covering are available in various
materials (wood, acrylic), finishes (opaque, gloss).
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OPAQUE VENEERED BLACK
OPAQUE VENEERED WHITE
The name “Sant’Elia” is a tribute to the Italian
master of the Futurism, from his visionary
architectures derives the initial inspiration of
the design of the object. The project purpose is
to create a concrete and flexible shape,
conceptually referable to the concept of
“admirable machinery” for the books or
magazines collection.
Maximum highness | 4,2 m
Minimum highness | 2,2 m
Floor Om | 0 m
MODULAR
Sant’Elia library is completely modular, you can compose
it as you like it, both for the materials and the colours,
but considering the warehouse availability. So you can
make it up, for example, with hexagonal wooden or acrylic
shelves, wooden or acrylic winglets and with or without
covering tubular elements with decorative shutters, in
this way you will leave the aluminium main frame at
sight, it depends of oneself taste.
COMPONENTS
Multi layers wood, Mdf or acrylic for the shelves
Aluminium main frame
Covering tubular elements with horizontal decorative
shutters
Multi layers wood, Mdf or acrylic for the adjustable stuckbooks winglets
Aluminium nuts for the fixing and the regulation of the
winglets
Basement with sphere bearing
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Highness available
High version 2,4 | 2,7 | 3,1 | 4,2 m
Low version 1,2m
Steel nuts and
screw thread
for regulation
Hexagonal shelf
with bearing
plane
SECTIONAL
Sant’Elia is a library that starts from the ceiling and ends
to the floor. The only fixing needed is to the ceiling and
the system can be adjustable in different highnesses
available, from a minimum of 2,2m till a maximum of
4,2 m, through patented tubular sections and telescopic
system.
REVOLVING SYSTEM
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Sant’Elia rotes around its own axis in both senses thanks
to an innovative revolving system that makes the library
ideal for corner places. Beside saving precious space, the
rotation of the library enriches it of functionality and
simplicity in the use.
Clockwise rotation
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Anticlockwise rotation
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MODULARITY OF THE SYSTEM
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The moving fixing of the winglets allows to storage a
variable quantity of books or magazines. The winglets
can be regulated through a simple and instantaneous
act. The rotation of the library on its own axis allow to
have a immediate access to all the books.
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THE EXCELLENCE OF THE EXECUTION
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Frosio believes that an thorough execution is implicit in the production of a good furnishing. For this reason the
high performances of the materials used and the extreme precision in working and assembling processes are the
premise for the achievement of the excellence aim contained inside the project. The composite rigour, the continuous
researching of new technologies must beside be added to, in order to achieve a continuous improvement of the
product.
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THE DESIGN
Sant’Elia is the result of a long research and prototype
in order to get a innovative product from the point of
view both of stylish and of flexibility and adaptability on
use, according to the principle of the innovative design.
Total modularity, integrability of the components,
essentiality of the shapes. These are the principles that
have led the designers Roberto De Giorgis and Agostino
Borinelli in all the phases of a project that is perfectly
set both in the domestic concept and in the contract one.
The designers
Roberto De Giorgis
Is born in Palazzolo sull’Oglio on October 15th 1968, he
graduated at the Politecnico in Milan with a planning
architectural thesis on a congressional- expository centre
for the Oglio Valley. He collaborates with Prof. Arch. Enrico
Mantero as a temporary assistant during the Architectural
Planning course at the Politecnico in Milan. After an
apprenticeship and a beginning of the professional activity
based on the architectural planning and the interiors
design, he adds to the activity of his studio, in a
continuative way, the Industrial Design, working in
collaboration with Arch. Agostino Borinelli, with whom
he founds the present work group DB&C Architects.
Agostino Borinelli
Is born in Sondrio on December 25th 1970. He graduated
at the Politecnico in Milan with a project concerning “An
alternative for the re-qualification of the ex- Scalo
Merci in Porta Vittoria and the study of a musical space
for Milan”. He collaborates with the Architectural Studies
Centres of Prof. Ing. Arch. Marco Dezzi Bardeschi both
for the new buildings planning and for the preservation
and the recovery of historical monuments. In the interiors
Architecture and Design concerning he collaborates, for
a long time, as a consultant at P.E.C. Society in Siviglia,
Spain, planning and realizing lots of spaces for a
commercial use. He plans and realizes single furnishing
elements.
DB&C Studio
The Studio devotes itself to the academic and professional
experimentation of an Architecture, Furnishing and Design
interpretation, based on the model of the Modern
Movement. The conceptual heritage of the Rationalism,
used as a composite criterion, is translated in the attention
to innovative but functional solutions. In particular in
the Design and in the Interiors Design is searched the
synthesis between formal essentiality and expressive value
in the modular compositions and in the technological
element, using advanced ways of working and materials.
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CENTRAL ROOM SANT'ELIA
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In the central room version, Sant'Elia adjusts itself to a
series of alternative uses and contests, a particular
attention must be given to the contract and to the
common spaces, for example: hotels halls, waiting rooms,
concept stores and all those spaces in which it is necessary
to exhibit, in a banal but immediate way, books, informative
material, magazines, etc.
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INFORMAL DESIGN
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TECHNICAL GUIDE
ACCESSORIES
FRONTAL PROSPECTS AND HIGHNESS | SANT’ELIA
CEILING FIXING WITH
ROLLER BEARING
UPPER VIEW
LATERAL VIEW
LOWER VIEW
BOOKSTAND ELEMENT
LOWER VIEW
BASAMENT WITH
SPHERE BEARING
BACK VIEW
CEILING H_320 UP
CEILING H_270 UP
CEILING H_240 UP
LATERAL VIEW
CENTRAL ROOM SANT’ELIA
SHELF OR
BOOKSTAND ELEMENT
BOOKHOLDING ELEMENT
MAGAZINES STAND
ELEMENTS
THE HEXAGONAL
SHELVES, THE COVERING
AND THE MAIN FRAME
ARE THE SAME USED
ALSO FOR THE CEILING
LIBRARY VERSION
BASAMENT WITH
SPHERE BEARING
BOOKSTAND ELEMENT*
HEXAGONAL SHELF PLAN
DIMENSIONS
MILLINGS FOR
ACCESSORIES
HOLDING
* Available only for central room
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version Sant’Elia
COMPONENTS
STANDARD COLORS PAGE*
Multi layers wood, Mdf or acrylic for the shelves
Aluminium main frame
Covering tubular elements with horizontal decorative shutters
Multi layers wood, Mdf or acrylic for the adjustable stuck-books
winglets
Aluminium nuts for the fixing and the regulation of the winglets
Basement with sphere bearing
SPECIFICATIONS
Highness available
High version 2,4 | 2,7 | 3,1 | 4,2 m
Low version 1,2m
MULTILAYERS OR MDF VERSION
All the indicated colours are available for the hexagonal shelves, for
the winglets and for the covering elements.
ACRYLIC VERSION
All the indicated colours are available for the hexagonal shelves and
for the winglets. (in this version the aluminium tubular frame is
always at sight, no covering are foreseen)
Basament with sphere bearing
Fixing and regulation nuts
Adiustable stuck-books winglets
Covering tubolar elements
Main frame
COMPONENTS
Hexagonal shelves
MULTILAYERS WOOD OR MDF
OPAQUE
BLACK
OPAQUE AND
GLOSS WHITE
OPAQUE AND
GLOSS RED
OPAQUE
RED, YELLOW, BLUE
NATURAL OAK
VENEERING
OAK VENEERING
PAINTED WENGE
WHITE
TRASPARENT
COLOURS AND FINISHES
GLOSS POLISHED WOOD
White
Red
OPAQUE POLISHED WOOD
Black
White
Red
Orange
OPAQUE
ORANGE
Bleu/Yellow/Red
MULTILAYERS WOOD
Oak
ACRYLIC
Wenge
ACRYLIC
Black
White
Transparent
ALUMINIUM
BLACK
Polished
* for huge order quantities there’s the chance to have personalized colours.
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Satin
CREDITS
Concept by Inside Brand
www.insidebrand.it
Photo by Caleidostudio
www.caleidostudio.it
Printed in April 2007
Sant’Elia is a community patent registered
at no. 622006 on 11/16/2006
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