STACK

confronted with rigid functional, spatial and temporal constraints, DENT replied with a series of unknowns.  but the completion of the project brought an unexpected unknown: what to do with all the scrap material?  it was simply too strong, too delicate, too graphic to be thrown away.  as if a quixotic mirror of the scrap-producing process (which attempted to wrest the unknown from the known) the project of putting the scraps to use became reductive, design by the process of elimination.

1. no cnc, therefore only straight lines.

2. wildly irregular supply, therefore small repetitive pieces.

3. scarce quantities, therefore simple structure.  

the result: repetitive blocks of cardboard supporting repetitive blocks of books, each structural unit echoing the visaul and material properties of the shelf’s contents.