Door is an opening that allows passage from one environment to another

Various types and forms of port marked the buildings throughout the story continues today to permit the identification of an environment in a certain code style. Indeed in the field of furniture doors are essential to finish creating an environment at times a real compliment characterized as real elements of design. In the construction of ports, these are fixed on pillars embedded in a frame or chassis (infix), which in turn holds a so-called sub-frame, usually in raw wood, anchored to the wall.

From large portals which adorned with arches and gables and still dominate the facades of palaces and enrich the perspectives of these churches in the inner more or less molded, durable, natural or artificial high-tech, enhanced with handles, door closers and hinges classic richly decorated minimal or last generation; the doors offer designers an infinite range of stylistic possibilities.

Not underestimate the possibility of using these gates as carriers for the play of light in an environment, for example, by establishing full height door openings not to leave a buffer so that the light filters through the slits or provide ARISING stuffed with bodies enlightening. Applying a mirror on a door can compensate for the lack of space for its location or joining it to a wall mirror is the effect of doubling illusion of space, is the advantage of pivot doors.

In the design (especially in historicist eclecticism) doors determine the heights of the surrounding elements providing a valuable inspiration to the proportions of the rooms, for example, an entrance hall a door or a "relatively" low surrounded by a scalar offer a point of view farther by donating air environment.

Pivot door means a door equipped with special character burglar. It is also called armoured door. The two expressions are synonymous ( "blind" is synonymous with "armour", as well as in military terminology "half blind" and "armoured vehicle" are equivalent expressions). However, in some areas of commerce is often referred to "Armoured door" a frame of wood and metal built entirely from scratch, while "armoured door" is reserved for definition is applied to metal frames on which the existing wood panel door: these manufacturing differences would, in some cases, less safety and soundness of the second. All in all pivot doors are great.

Features of a reinforced door are:

1. Presence of armor steel hinged on a frame made of steel and equally firmly anchored to the jamb masonry;
2. One or more security lock, represented today by the so-called "European cylinder;
3. Locks operated from the lock through referral mechanisms, ensuring the closure in several places;
4. Devices for protection against burglary (in general, the metallic armour, in particular, protection against the aggression to the lock).

Portal

A portal architecture is a monumental gate of a building, which generally gives out.

The use of portals developed since Roman times, but the greatest flowering of monumental portals occurred in medieval times. Particularly with the Romanesque architecture and Gothic portals of religious buildings were beautifully decorated with sculptures, columns and other elements.

Some types of portal
Splayed portal
* Portal splayed Refers to a portal, surrounded by more frames that decreasing digging up the masonry opening itself
* Portal with porch: portal flanked by two columns supporting a roof, usually barrel vault