{"id":448,"date":"2014-03-27T08:06:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T13:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/?p=448"},"modified":"2014-03-27T08:06:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T13:06:36","slug":"touch-open-kinetic-doors-unfold-like-life-sized-origami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/touch-open-kinetic-doors-unfold-like-life-sized-origami\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch to Open: Kinetic Doors Unfold Like Life-Sized Origami"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austrian artist Klemens Torggler<\/strong> has reinvented the door with his latest project. <\/p>\n

Called the Evolution Door<\/strong>, the 4-panel door opens and closes elegantly as though it's made of pieces of paper. Roggler calls it a \"flip panel door\" (or \"Dryehplattent\u00fcr\").<\/p>\n

\"Evolution<\/p>\n

Torggler has a few variations on this door, one with the origami-esque triangles that fold out to help the door move, and another system with rods that rotate two square panels.<\/p>\n

The steel version of the door is particularly ingenious as its space-saving method of action. Like its sliding cousins, it avoids the in-and-out motions of a typical doorway to minimize the space you need to set aside in front of or behind it.<\/p>\n

The glass design uses a minimalist framework of structural supports, all of which then disappears entirely into a secret wall space hidden alongside it.<\/p>\n