In Austria, an artist called Klemens Torggler has set out to reinvent one of the oldest inventions of all: the door. The Drehplattentür, also called a “flip-panel door”, is made up of four panels that can be made of different materials (glass, steel, wood, iron…) and that open and close very elegantly, as if they were pieces of paper. You can see how it works in the video below.
Beautiful design aside, you’d have to look at its practical advantage over other doors, because at first sight it looks like the ideal door for trapping your fingers. Still, there’s no denying that the design is striking, to say the least. What advantages could this kind of door have over the ones we already have inside our homes?
Watch: Klemens Torggler’s door in action
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Featured image: Theophilus van Kannel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
