Too cool! The Evolution Door, a "flip-panel" invention -- it's like a pocket door

[underpants]

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Add this to the list of things we never knew existed but now desperately need: The Evolution Door, a "flip-panel" invention by Austrian designer Klemens Torggler.

This is not Torggler's only alternative-door solution; his website actually lists several models. They're all based on rotating squares, but some systems incorporate rods, while others make use of a wheel, and a track arranged in an epitrochoid curve. The Evolution Door works by virtue of four strategically attached triangles that separate, fold and rotate with a gentle flick of the wrist. It's a wonderful play on geometry that makes it possible to move the screen from side to side without the use of a track, a topological trick that Torggler says "opens up new applications for the door."

[PassingFair]

1. Cool...but all I can think about is....

kid's fingers.

[hunter]

2. Not good doors for drunk naked people...

OUCH!

[csziggy]

3. That would be great for screen doors!

I need screen doors on some of our exterior doors but there is no space to allow them to swing. I tried the retractable screens but the track on the floor is a trip hazard so I only have them on a couple of seldom used doors.

These things would work great for putting screen doors in those location - they'd be out of the way but easy to move! I like the triangle panel model. Wonder what they use for a joint at the connection point between the two big panels - a ball joint?

For those worried about pinching body parts - the doors have soft edges:

[KG]

4. solution to a problem that doesn't exist

[underpants]

7. Actually it is a solution to a problem that you didn't realize existed

Got it wrong bro

[Orrex]

10. And what is that problem, exactly?

I confess that I can't see it as anything but a novelty, but I'd be happy to learn of a practical use for it in the home or office.

[underpants]

11. Say you have a room that you want to close off

either for noise or to keep pets in/out or you just want a door but you don't want it swinging out taking up space or you can't install a pocket door (rental/wall construction/don't know how or want to spend money to pay someone to do it).

I had an apartment once that this would have been perfect for.

[Orrex]

13. The pinch-factor seems to override all of that

Your answer makes some sense, but I've never lived in a place where this kind of finger-severing contraption would work better than a conventionally mounted door.

[Avalux]

14. Well, in MY house....

The foundation has shifted; a couple of doors no longer fits exactly where they should in the frame. Hence, I have doors that do not close the entire way.

This would be a perfect solution. Of course they'd have to be prettied up.

[NV Whino]

5. At last!

A door the cat can't open. Maybe.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. Meh. But, I love Pocket Doors. Matter of fact, I want to replace seven interior doors

with Pocket Doors. I just adore a Pocket Door

[mnhtnbb]

8. It doesn't really substitute for a pocket door

because you still need the wall space.

We have two pocket doors in the house we built in 2011. I love 'em.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. Yes, this one requires some space. Concept is cool - Execution works - Design is awkward ...?

Somehow, it just -looks- awkward to me. ymmv.

The working mechanism is genius but, to watch it -- is not elegant ...

[underpants]

12. As I posted above

What if you can't install a pocket door (rental/wall construction/don't know how or want to spend money to pay someone to do it) that is why I mentioned that it was like a pocket door.

I had an apartment once that this would have been perfect for.


Just saying.