Story pod | AKB – Feel Desain | your daily dose of creativity

Today’s innovation is based in Toronto and is called Story Pod. As the name suggest is a pod for stories located near the main street of the city of Newmarket, Canada. The aim of the pod is a book exchange, where visitors can take a book, leave a book, or lounge on the built-in seating for a relaxing reading session. The design studio that architected all this is AKB. Regardless of the reasoning behind a person’s visit to the pod, each person is met with an artistically designed structure with a series of vertical slats. When the slats are closer together, they look like an opaque wall, but they reveal book stacks when the openings are widened. There are also gaps backed by transparent plastic, which allows light to filter through and add to the piece’s dynamic nature. For those who are walking around at night you will notice the Story Pod as it illuminates.