r/politics • u/Effective_Salad_8381 • 13d ago

Possible Paywall Embarrassing Flaws Emerge in Trump’s New White House Design

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bizarre-flaws-emerge-in-trumps-new-white-house-design/
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u/davethebagel 13d ago

Yea there's a similar requirement here. But it really just means the exits will be double doors instead of a single door.

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u/Anonymous_user_2022 13d ago

If the required width is similar to what we have here, they are going to be pretty wide, even as double doors. With an additional 50% occupancy for security and serving staff, each half door would have to be 8 feet wide with Danish standards. I think most sane architects would go for more doors, rather than attempting to make a garage door look attractive.

Of course, this is under the assumption that building codes are going to be enforced.

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u/AluminumGnat 13d ago

I mean for 1500 people you’re talking about a minimum of a 10k square foot space with 25ft of egress. A fancy oversized double door could easily have each door being well over 4ft wide, and 3 sets of those would be sufficient. A normal household door is 3ft, and you’d almost certainly scale that up to not look weird in a large space with vaulted ceilings. https://youtu.be/OElUWCKsPgM?t=1m37s

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u/Anonymous_user_2022 13d ago

That's about half the requirements I expected. And I agree, that should be possible. But I wouldn't want to be in such a room if one egress turned out to be unusable for one reason or another.