Handicapped-accessible doors in an accessibility context - By: ime

If it's true that nowadays the city or parts of it works badly for its users, it's even more true that they don't work at all for those citizens who have mobility limitations. the whole contemporary city is full of architectural barriers which create problems to a lot of its inhabitants, so if it's good to make it more livable, it's absolutely necessary that this effort is aimed to make it livable for all the categories of citizens.

So let's see now some rules that must be followed to allow accessibility in public places.

First of all every external door that give access to a building must be easily practicable. It's important that next to each access, both inside and outside, for a depth of 1.50m there aren't height differences, that the possible doormat is placed at the same level of the floor and has a different color, so that it's easy to understand that there is a different walking surface.

There should be an area 2m depth, put in front of the door and protected by atmospheric agents, which needs to avoid discomforts for everybody and in particular for disabled people, old people and mothers with babies in prams, who all need more time to open the door.

In order to favour a contemporaneous transit of more people at the same time, there should be access doors which, opened leaf, allow a free-obstacle crossing at least cm150 wide and which are useful for security reasons in case of emergency exits. In order to prevent accidental hits against moving leafs, it's a good idea to produce them in transparent materials in order to allow a free sight between inside and outside, and in order to prevent any other kind of accident, it's necessary to make them clearly identifiable through marks or handles
or even colored bands.

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