Coaxially Motorized Oak Doors
Carlo Ratti Associatti
The 6m high automatic swinging shutters are made of large horizontal strips of Oak and are installed at a Villa in Parma, Italy. With the constraint of having to completely hide the motors from view, my idea was to design a co-axial motor drive housed in an underground box which would deliver power to each of the upper doors and allow for each door to rotate independently. While the outside faces of the doors were made of Oak, the insides matched the indoor wall color by integrating a white Alupanel sheet into the design.
