Slow Door by Deepak Jawahar from india

The slow door is conceived to investigate the inbetween space. The space of anticipation. The idea is to design an object that could possibly influence the way we experience the threshold of any space. The slow door in particular addresses the designed event of delaying the transition through the threshold and prolonging the moment of haptic interface between the subject and the object.

The challenge throughout the design process has been to ascertain the degree of intervention required to manifest or amplify the experience of the inbetween space whilst still preserving the functionality of the object.

The slow door consists of 252 cubic blocks of which 251 are typical blocks with dimensions of 100 mm X 100mm X 100mm and one atypical block which has an integrated door handle. The units are organized over a grid of 21 rows and 12 columns.