Hagai Harduff (Israel)
Category C Japanese Style
Furniture & Household Utensils

A look at doors throughout history reveals conservatism and functionality. The focus is on its ability to open and close an entrance and less upon the doors' influence on the space, its relations with other spaces, and the user. Through observing everyday life and examining all the components that the entrance and door influence and are influenced by, I chose to focus on three main issues:
- To create a door that would be complete at each of the positions throughout its full range between open and closed.
- To attend to the presence of the door in both spaces simultaneously and to eliminate the dead zone caught behind it.
- To relate to the "in-between" as a state in the transition between one space to the other and its influence on the user.