Lifeshell, wood-based anti-seismic furniture

Lifeshell is an anti-seismic furniture construction concept, which can be used for making wardrobes, tables, desktops, beds. It’s made by timber based panels: highly resistant and flexible, relatively lightweight and inexpensive. Lifeshell benefits from the natural wood elasticity and from smart connections for dissipating the great impact energies occurring during an earthquake. Lifeshell has been designed for resisting partial building collapses, and to provide a safe shell where inhabitants can find refuge. This system allows increasing the survival chances especially in old not-anti-seismic buildings, potentially avoiding injuries and death. The furniture is build by using 3 to 5 layers Cross Laminated Timber panels 80 or 100 mm thick. Connections are performed by using wooden house hardware. Several versions are available for Education (school and lab desks), Residential (dining table, desk, wardrobe, bed), Office and Industry (meeting table, office desk, work bench). The Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence allows to share (copy and redistribute) Lifeshell in any medium or format, adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material, for any purpose, even commercially, by giving the appropriate credit to authors.