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Old 12-01-2009, 12:35 AM   #1
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Dec 1, 2009: Curtain Door

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.
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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?

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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.
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Old 12-01-2009, 04:55 AM   #2
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Screwy looking house.
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Old 12-01-2009, 05:22 AM   #3
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Maybe it's the thickness of the door? That'd be my guess.
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Old 12-01-2009, 07:20 AM   #4
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...If the cops break his door down, it'll cost more to fix than his lawyer will.
How much does it cost to get a lawyer fixed? And why do you know this?


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Old 12-01-2009, 07:41 AM   #5
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It's a cool looking door, but doesn't look very weather tight. I can see light shining through the gaps on the sides, even where it's closed. It must be interior. The weather would come right through.
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Old 12-01-2009, 08:33 AM   #6
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I don't understand how 40 pieces, 10 inches thick, adds up to 17 feet, but that's what is says?
Notice the beams are rectangular, not square. The thickness of each piece, hence the door, is 10". The height of each piece is about 5".

Or maybe it's some kind of metric feet. Stinkin' commies.
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Old 12-01-2009, 09:46 AM   #7
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It's a cool looking door, but doesn't look very weather tight. I can see light shining through the gaps on the sides, even where it's closed. It must be interior. The weather would come right through.
A lot of architecture in India is rather open. The climate favors breezes and central courtyards, open to the wind and rain.
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The courtyards also take up an old Indian architectural motif whereby the courtyard provides light and air for the rooms directly in this hot climate, and people are able to spend time outside or inside according to the time of day. The courtyard is also the classical symbol of something shared, a place where people meet, spend time with each other and live together. This aspect is emphasised in the courtyard for the general public, which is placed immediately inside the entrance and constructed in the form of a Kund, a large area of stone steps. Here people spend their waiting time together almost as if in a state of communal meditation. A waiting area that would be completely inconceivable in Western culture functions as a “think tank” here, with the ambience of waiting stimulating communal reflection.
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Old 12-01-2009, 10:15 AM   #8
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A lot of architecture in India is rather open. The climate favors breezes and central courtyards, open to the wind and rain.
Good point. I didn't notice where it was.
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Old 12-01-2009, 10:30 AM   #9
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It's beautiful, but rather drowned by the big ugly walls. It's a cinderella curtain door.
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The site above also links to a series of extraordinary Nat'l Geographic pictures. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200...internati.html
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Old 12-01-2009, 01:42 PM   #11
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Nice link.
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Old 12-01-2009, 05:11 PM   #12
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It looks beautiful but I still can't get my brain around how it is suppose to close.
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How much does it cost to get a lawyer fixed? And why do you know this?


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Old 12-02-2009, 01:15 AM   #15
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It looks beautiful but I still can't get my brain around how it is suppose to close.
Case, looking from the top, it would open like a fan or deck of cards. It stays attached at the top, and each piece of wood swings open a little further than the one above it.
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