This cool door is for all you big kids out there, designed by Tobias Fränzel, the door flips into a ping pong table, all ready for gameplay. And after you are finished, flip it up again and its back to being a functional door.
Created by Matharoo Associates for a diamond merchant in India, the door is a whopping 17 feet high and five-and-a-half feet wide, and comprises 40 sections of Burmese teak, each of them nearly a foot thick. Each section revolves around some pretty complex machinery: The door’s single pivot hides a counterweight, 80 ball bearings, and 160 pulleys. Constructed of polished wooden panels, the door is designed to be opened in a similar way as folding fans. Whenever you open the door, these boards will gradually move away to welcome you.
Hoho, that’s cool. It was done by a talented artist from Argentina named Leandro Erlich. This shattering door was on display at the Luciana Brito gallery in São Paulo, Brazil.
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