A Door So Ingenious It Will Blow Your Concept of a Door Off Its Hinges

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/02/13/austrian_artist_klemens_torggler_radically_reinvents_the_door_video.html

Making the design blog rounds the past few days is an ingenious folding door from Austrian artist Klemens Torggler. It’s the kind of poetic reinvention of a familiar object that makes you wonder why nobody thought of such a radical innovation before.

A look at Torggler’s website reveals that the refinement of his series of “flip panel” door prototypes is an ongoing design and engineering experiment:

The latest incarnation, the Evolution Door, is engineered to move sideways without the use of a track. To open and close, four folding triangles seem to magically fold up over themselves. Soft edges keep worry warts from losing a digit: