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Tale of the detail

The conversation between a “Detail” and the maintenance man.

D:   Hey what are you doing?  You need to slide me and the rest will be taken care of.  All you have to do is slide and then push.

M:  But you are a door, I’m suppose to just push or pull on you.

D:  I’m not a door, I am a detail.

M:  What does that mean?

D:  Just look around you.  I’m not typical as everything around you.

So doors perform to let you in and out and provide a sense of privacy and protection.  Most doors operate from using a door knob, opens and closes from one axis from a set of hinges.  So when a door completely changes the way we are used to a door, it becomes something else.  Here the door slides left to right, but once you reached a certain point of the railing the door rotates the door 90 degrees.   The door now becomes more of an Architectural detail.  A detail that makes you change the way you look at a simple door.  The detail makes you become active with the Architecture.  You notice how the door is different, and since you notice the difference, you start picking up on the other “detail” that is different.  The “detail” made you active.

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