| Reuse of VHS Video cassette (Bookshelf Edition) | ||||
| One of my recent projects (SDGs) is the reuse of VHS video cassettes. For a long time, I've been wondering what is a useful way to recycle and reuse my many unwanted video cassettes at home. And I finally came up with one solution. It's a bookshelf. There are video cassettes from various manufacturers, but the shape is unified to 188 long sides x 104 short sides x 25 mm thick so that they can be played on different VCRs. Therefore, I thought of video cassettes as the structural material of bookshelves, and with structural mechanics in mind, I connected each video cassette vertically and horizontally to create multiple unit types. When I combined them, the VHS video cassettes were reborn as the following bookshelves. | ||||
| Unit type combination |
A + B + B | B + A + B | C + D + C | |
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| External dimensions | Height (mm) | 1,344 | 1,215 | |
| Width (mm) | 312 | 415 | ||
| Depth (mm) | 1,215 | 190 | ||
| Number of cassettes used | 57 | 48 | ||
| Unit manufacturing method | How to remove videotapes from VHS videocassettes and bond cassettes | |||
| Unit type A | Unit type C | |||
| Unit type B | Unit type D | |||