It needs the numbers 1 2 3 4 and the colors red blue yellow green on it…
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Well there’s always the value of airflow, sound, and privacy control.
But on the whole, yes, no doors would be the most minimal, followed closely by a door-curtain or a similar non-door hole-covering.
Door based on rotating hinged triangles actually. But beautiful engineering.
A design that looks impressive, but might be less useful than a standard door or a sliding door: consider trying to close it from the other room. Myself, I’d want to try that exercise a few times before buying… very carefully.
Good design is boring: you can use it without even thinking about it. Boring is a virtue.
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An amazing creaky floor demonstration, with some kind of door flipping thing going on in the background.
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They had deliberately squeeky floors yes, but to top it off, they had paths that could be walked that wouldn’t squeak. That way, if intruders were inspected, the guards, knowing where to step, could sneak up on the intruders, but not vice-versa.
That’s a good point. Our house is so well insulated that I close off only one room, who doesn’t get used at all.
Privacy-control is a matter of culture, not practicality. If people weren’t hung up about witnessing defecation, masturbation and copulation and even nudity, they wouldn’t need that many doors. 
Whatever the origin of the perceived need, doors and their ilk are still practical for meeting the need.
There’s no inherent need to, say, smoke tobacco, and yet a typical smoking pipe is still a practical object. What matters regarding an object’s practicality is that its design and usage is entirely or chiefly concerned with the “practice” of something, with the physical usage and employment of it, rather than with abstract and immaterial matters.
To return to our smoking pipe example, one might perhaps own a pipe that is made of ivory and inlaid with gold filligree, whose sole or at least chief purpose is decorational, and that would make it impractical. In contrast, a simple corncob pipe regularly used for smoking is entirely practical, even if the practice of smoking is itself superfluous.
Good point. You are right, I was wrong.
And there are a billion completely boring doors in the world just for you. This one is not for you.
How would you lock it? Obviously it’s fun for an interior door, but is there a way to make it into a main door?
Probably some sort of swinging hook type lock.
My guess is that it will stop working properly sometime after installation when the house settles a bit and throws off the balance. People are always surprised when you put a square up to their walls and show just how far off they are from true.
I still want to know how you close it from the other side. You notice that he walked to the side of the door to do that, a fair distance from the actual door frame. (That’s a bit of inefficiency in itself - with most doors, you just walk straight through the frame, reach to the side and pull the door closed behind you.)
I know someone whose house has bits go back to the 13th century. It has some epicaly wonky corners in it.
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