Door with a simple, elegant design hides “complex machinery” within

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.  But they all work together invisibly. Push on any one plank, and all 40 sections reconfigure themselves into a sinusoidal curve, revealing an opening into the house.

That’s just freakin’ awesome.

[Via Gizmodo; Fast Company]

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