CHARACTERISTICS TO CONSIDER WHEN DESIGNING DOORS… When designing doors or inserting doors into a specific environment you have to consider certain aspects which could affect the space/ people who will be entering and exiting these space.
Doors can be used for many purposes, such as:
- Privacy
- Safety
- Fire doors
- Hygiene doors
- Acoustics
- Weather protection
- Access
- Resistance & Durability
Obviously doors are used on an everyday basis, this means they need to have factors which allow for impact to be applied everyday, when choosing a door you need to consider who will nee to access it and how they will do so if they are disabled. Doors are such a simple factor and come in every design spec yet you need to know what aspect to consider.
DOOR MATERIALS
- Timber
- UPVC
- Steel
- Glass
- Laminate
- Recycled
DOOR TYPES
- Hinged
- Sliding/ Folding
- Automatic
- Revolving
- Roller Shutter
- Curtains
Doors may seem like a very simple thing to most people, yet no one really thinks about the terminology behind this object which we use every single day…
Peta-Louise Krog 