Project: Always Closed? Or Always Open? – A Revolving Door



 The project goal is to explore how people move individually and in groups when faced with the constrained presented by a Revolving Door. Capturing how they behave by instinct while flowing trough the space created by the door. The Revolving Door is an intriguing architectural object that can be interpreted as being close or being open depends how the user approach it. Often the Revolving Door will force two or more people to act in unison, in a coordinated way, as in an unspoken contract, to achieve their movement goal of entering and exiting the space. The door has practical use of keeping heat in, and bad weather out. It effectively isolates the inside environment from the outside environment. An unintended consequence is that for a moment it also isolates the individuals that use it. The Revolving Door separates us in a circular journey in order to unite us at the end of the journey. Some people may see this force separation as cold and inhuman and I want to capture this in coldness and inhumanity in my work, while at the same time capturing the human interactions forced by the operation of the door. The project is developing into focusing on behavior on enclose spaces like the space form by the revolving door blades in the motion of entering or exiting the space. Also focusing on the reaction of children to the revolving door.