Building With Style: The Key to the Front Door

Most house entries are placed prominently at the front, scaled up in size and embellished with arches, fancy trim, transoms, or sidelights. There is nothing wrong with such a traditional entry if it fits in with the many complex requirements for a modern home. Too often, however, the main entry is a pretentious, inappropriate, and dysfunctional leftover from another era. The Experience of Entering Entering and leaving a building is a complex and important experience, so it is not surprising that we celebrate it by showing off a fancy doorway. Yet a prominent door is only one of many different entry options. To understand how other solutions might work, we need to first examine what happens when the occupant