OPPO Engineers

i’m looking for suggestions. I want to make something simular to the cabinet below. The difficult part is I want to be ablew to open it with touching it with my hands.

option 1: put a pedal on the bottom, but I feel like that has a greater chance of breaking

option 2: put a piston (like what holds your hood open) and a button that releases a latch and lets the door open but that seems conplicated.

what do you guys think?

this is where it will be going:

the inside