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The Pei Building, Berlin: through a large revolving door into a four-storey glass hall.

I. M. Pei’s first realised project in Germany uses a large revolving door as the main entrance, a “breathing space” between the street and the tall glass hall.

Reference project — not a Eurowindow project. This article summarises public information from the sources listed at the end, with our own commentary. Images belong to their owners and are embedded directly from Pinterest with a link back to the source.

The project at a glance

Image: Drehtür Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin — see the original pin on Pinterest.

What stands out on the facade

According to the museum’s own pages and German architecture press, the Pei Building has two parts: a solid stone volume and a glass hall open to the sky behind a slender steel-and-glass facade. Visitors enter through a large revolving door at the main entrance into the four-storey hall, from where the exhibition rooms are reached.

Beside the building Pei also designed a very flat glass dome over the Zeughaus courtyard with no intermediate supports.

Note: figures and descriptions above come from the sources cited at the end; we quote them for reference and have not verified them independently.

Our take

A revolving door at the main entrance of a public building raises three questions:

  1. Revolving doors hold conditioned air better than ordinary doors, since one leaf is always blocking the wind, which suits tall halls with strong stack effect. But an accessible route for wheelchairs and prams is needed alongside.
  2. A revolving door is not an escape route. A breakout leaf or an adjacent emergency door is required by fire regulations.
  3. An automatic door is part of the building system. Its links to access control and fire alarm decide how it performs on ordinary days and in an emergency. See Eurowindow automatic doors.

If you are weighing options for a high-rise project, send your brief to the Eurowindow technical team to discuss specifics.

Sources

This article is for reference only and does not imply Eurowindow took part in this project. If you own an image or content and would like it changed or removed, please contact sonhn@eurowindow.biz; we will act immediately.