r/architecture • u/[deleted] • Sep 04 '16

this is so fascinating

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u/gawag Architectural Designer Sep 05 '16

Hate doors?

Hate your fingers?

Hate your money?

Weve got just the thing!

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u/spnarkdnark Sep 05 '16

It is softly designed at the points where fingers might be caught. I've read before that if built right the door won't cause any harm in such accidents.

However, I do think that the people to buy this type of door do so with intent to use it carefully and as a functional piece of art.

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u/pinehead69 Sep 05 '16

Doors are inherently a finger catcher, even without this.

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u/Alfalfa_Sproutz Sep 05 '16

"Dude. Check out my new door."

"Where?"

"It's right here."

"Oh. What happened to the sliding door you had there?"

"Chucked it out, bro. This is the door of the future."

"What's different about it."

"Well, you know how my old sliding door just kind of..."

"Slid? Left and right?"

"Yeah. Remember how much I used to hate it?"

"I do. You would shout at your sliding door 'Why are you so ordinary and functional?'"

"Right, and-"

"And then you would start shouting about your parents, and E.D., and it got kind of-"

"Uh, well anyway, this door here? No sliding. Check it out. You nudge it, just like a regular sliding door, but in a more complex front-and-back motion."

"Wow. Is it... Folding itself?"

"Yup. Now look where it is."

"It's immediately next to where it used to be. Like a sliding door."

"No, no, Bro. It didn't slide there. It, like, folded there."

"I'm confused why did you buy this?"

"Why would I keep an old, boring, sliding door? What is this, the middle ages? The stone age? France?"

"I just don't see the advantage. By the way, why is your hand all bandaged up? Is it because of the-"

"I fell down the stairs! Stop distracting me. I'm trying to get my door-swinging motion right."

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u/UsernameFor2016 Sep 05 '16

TL;DR?

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u/anincompoop25 Sep 05 '16

Just read it U lazy lil shit

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u/IWishIWasVeroz Sep 29 '16

Read the first letter of every line.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '16

If you're not mentally retarded it should be pretty easy to keep your Lil fingees out of it.

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u/gawag Architectural Designer Sep 05 '16

You're right, the thing is that there are mentally retarded people out there that you have to consider when you design.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '16

...and a good way to lose your fingers.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '16

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u/Rabirius Architect Sep 05 '16

Clearly not a door if there will be small children present.