project 63/

A DOOR ON THE CEILING

E. Stakhovsky, Psychiatrist, Dnepropetrovsk

Nothing aids the emergence and prompting of new ideas - consequently new, radically new, projects - like the continually functioning indication of the possibility of an exit into another space, into another dimension, as a change in the usual familiar parameters of life, the order of which has been established once and for all. In general the very idea of an exit, an escape, a change of space lies deeply in the nature of any project, even though that project involves the simple improvement of everyday existence. To go beyond the corner of everyday life, to escape beyond the horizon encircling you, such is the genuine force pushing us toward inventing.

And the door to our room fulfills, in this sense, not only a functional, but also a profound, magical role.

Unfortunately, we have become too accustomed to the door to our room and its functional purpose has masked from us its secondary more profound significance.

The solution proposed in our project consists of the installation of one more door in the center of the room, under the ceilings flush up against its surface. This unexpected, non-banal arrangement of a door in the room in one felt swoop eliminates the everyday, down-to-earth significance of the door (It is difficult to imagine that we can go see the neighbor through this door upward), but it will continually summon us to an exit into another, unseen world, it will stimulate the imagination, and call upon us to search for a solution in the same new, unusual recourse like the place of the door in our project.

A DOOR ON THE CEILING

1. Take an old door (with the appearance like in the sketch), painted with peeling white paint with cracks and which has been repainted many times, 90 x 120 cm in size, with a thickness of 6 cm and an old doorknob.

2. Remove the hinges, remove the doorknob from one side and attach it tightly to the ceiling in the center.