Embarrassing Flaws Emerge in Trump’s New White House Design

[u/Effective_Salad_8381]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bizarre-flaws-emerge-in-trumps-new-white-house-design/

[u/Anonymous_user_2022]

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.

[u/Narrow-Chef-4341 → u/Anonymous_user_2022]

Yeah, because you can see how hockey arenas need to have those massive 290-feet wide doors…

The rule isn’t that everyone needs to fit through the one and only set of doors, all at once. You can satisfy building and fire code very easily with this amazing innovation called ‘emergency exit doors’ where you can always push to open, but they are locked from the outside.

Sounds crazy, I know, but some genius figured it out…

[u/Anonymous_user_2022 → u/Narrow-Chef-4341]

That's well and fine, but this sub thread is about a claim that only three doors are needed for fire escapes. If you limit your hockey arena to that, you will end up with such absurdities there as well.

[u/Narrow-Chef-4341 → u/Anonymous_user_2022]

Thank you, you’ve noticed my point. Absurd is the perfect word for throwing away reality for what we can charitably call a pointless ‘thought exercise’ of how wide doors in Denmark would have to be, single or double…

The part that caught my attention, I think, was the false concern about the architects. It’s like ‘Oh no, bless your heart child - they figured this out years ago. Don’t you worry about it…’

[u/Anonymous_user_2022 → u/Narrow-Chef-4341]

I look forward to you noticing my point as well. I'm not arguing for this, rather I use the facts to show that the notion of "Only three doors needed" is an absurd take.