Faino Estante is a fully customizable shelving system. It's based on a grid structure whose dimensions can be adapted to user's needs. The entire system is designed to be manufactured by means of discrete production oriented machines and tools, that is, by using industrial processes that make single-piece manufacturing economically viable.
The core of this shelving system consists of side frames in welded square steel tube, joined together by cross beams made of folded sheet steel. Board shelves rest on that stringers and close the basic structure. Several accesories -such as full-height containers, drawers, boxes, trays, book/vinyl brackets- can be added to the core configuration.
The design is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License and is modeled parametrically on open access document hosted on the Onshape platform. This means that anyone can access them, make a copy and adapt the design to their needs and the means of production available: change the dimensions to suit their requirements, remove or add components and change the design to adapt the manufacture to other materials or production processes. Onshape document is a work-in-progress file, but exported 3D parts and 2D drawing files are stored into files folder.
Faino Estante Latest version is 1.1.0-release. Older versions can be seen in changelog.
The core of the system follows three main premises:
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Discreet. Or as Dieter Rams says: as little design as possible. Bookshelves used to be high-sized furniture, so design must minimize its visual weight.
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Designed to last. Books weigh,so a good mechanic resistance is required, specially on high span configurations. Easy repairability and reconfigurability (new uses, new spaces) are another key features took in mind during design process.
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Intended for discrete manufacturing. Digital manufacturing processes such as laser cutting or CNC machining makes feasible single-unit production without boost costs, and nowadays these technologies are wide-extended, so it's easy to find it on near manufacturers. Anyway, it's easy to adapt design to a more classical manufacturing processes.
The design solution starts from an archetypical shelving configuration: Side frames for vertical growth and a combination of beams and shelves for horizontal development. This so Cartesian configuration allows to focus attention on empty spaces and divert it from the grid.
Assymmetric-U-section cross beams are system's cornerstone, contributing to a good mechanical resistance, hiding fixations and visually enlighting the shelves.
The result is a visually clean shelf whether viewed from above or from below.
Further information about design, modelling and manufacturing issues can be found in DESIGN.
Keeping in mind digital manufacturing technologies during design process enables distributed manufacturing ecosystems.
The advent and popularization of digital manufacturing technologies enabled new ways of goods production and consumption. Unlike traditional manufacturing, where raw materials are transformed into standarized products in centralized factories and distributed to customers, distributed manufacturing focus on customized single-unit on-demand products, manufactured according to user needs and preferences. Production is distributed into a network of factories, workshops and craftmen working in closely communication with final user. Producing under this ecosystem reinforces local production and reduces footprint.
Three key roles are defined:
- User must adopt an active role in shelf design, transmitting to the designer all critical information in order to ensure that the design meets her/his needs.
- Manufacturer is a professional or organization with capacity to resolve one or more production processes involved in shelving system manufacturing.
- Designer acts as a link between user and manufacturers. He has the responsability of adapt shelf design to user's needs and preferences while keep it suitable for available manufacturers' capabilities.
It's intended to establish a new relationship between users, designers and producers through the act of design and production, while promoting local manufacturing: Users can access to furniture adapted to their needs, not only that one the market offers them, while developing a more active and conscious culture of consumption. Designers (novices especially) can actively develop knowledge and expertise in real cases while receiving an economic return. And manufacturers diversify their client portfolio by manufacturing designs that led low load in technical department development.
List of designers and manufacturers available can be found in DIWO.
Faino is a non-profit project, born from the determination to share knowledge that may be useful to others. You can contribute to this project in several ways:
- Fork the repository and develop to a new full version or to merge into this project.
- Make a copy of the Onshape document and design accessories for the current version of Faino. If you want, they can be studied and later included in the root Faino document
- Propose yourself as a designer or producer to appear on the list of partners, so users interested in making a shelf can contact you. Obviously, design and manufacturing work must be remunerated, but that already belongs to a client-professional relationship outside of Faino.
If you have questions, want to know more about the project or simply want to talk, you can write to fainodiwo@gmail.com.
This project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
All content included in this repository and in CAD document linked from it is only for informational purposes. Models and drawings are not ready to production. Please confront them with your manufacturer. USE THIS DATA AT YOUR OWN RISK.