Dec 1, 2009: Curtain Door

[xoxoxoBruce]

Not some college kid with an old shower curtain nailed over the doorway, or a slum shack with a curtain for a door. In this case, curtain door is a figure of speech, a technical description, because if you can afford this door, you ain't living in a slum, baby.



Neatorama points to the Emerging Architecture site, showing this prize winning door.

The door alone to this diamond merchant’s residence in Surat, India, was judged enough to make it one of the four prize winners this year.
At 5.2m (17ft) high and 1.7m (5.6ft) wide, the door is comprised of 40 sections of 254mm (10inch) thick Burma teak. Each section is carved so that the door integrates 160 pulleys, 80 ball bearings, a wire-rope and a counter weight hidden within the single pivot.

I don't understand how 40 pieces, 10 inches thick, adds up to 17 feet, but that's what is says?

Stacked one above the other in the closed position, each plank can then rotate by a simple push causing the door to reconfigure into a sinusoidal curve.

If the cops break his door down, it'll cost more to fix than his lawyer will.