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Science library-café

Playing with Kepler’ geometrical basis of the universe, Anna Wigandt designed in the capital of Moldova a self-service café where you can study engineering.

The aim of the Science library-café – designed by Anna Wigandt in the city of Chişinău, capital of Moldova – was to create a place that will carry educational purposes.

Nowadays, there are so many bars and cafes with diverse interiors. As a rule, their interiors appeal on emotional state by creating cozy atmosphere. This project lacks the idea of attracting a person into a comfort zone (which sometimes should be avoided). The idea of this space is in consolidating the process of knowledge acquisition and in involvement of young people interested in the applied science.

The idea is to combine public and working spaces and to help to increase the level of involvement of young people in the process of self-education.

There are 8 shelves with books, classified by sphere of activity. They are all available for use: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Shipbuilding, Mechanical Engineering, Machine Engineering, Astronautics, Chemical Engineering, Nuclear Science and Engineering, Biological Engineering.

During the lectures the modular table will be arranged into the one geometric pattern. The idea came from Kepler’ Mysterium Cosmographicum – the geometrical basis of the universe represented by regular polygons bound in one inscribed and one circumscribed circle at definite ratios. But in this case, the table is just a projection of that model.

A key element of this space is the lighting, designed and manufactured especially for this project. It is called Angewandte Chemie which stands for “applied chemistry” in German. It resembles the classic-look crystal chandeliers, but crystals are replaced by simple chemical tubes in a rigid frame made from black metal.