With a wide, short door you have to hang it on the short side, and less space for hinges, which leads to large forces on the hinges.
A wide, tall door allows you to use more hinges, spread out, along a longer side and smaller forces on each hinge.
This makes even more sense with doors made with heavy materials, such as various metals. A heavy door needs more hinges, and a tall door has room for more hinges.
Where they walking on top of each other or why make the doors so huge? 🤔 i can understand wide, the other dimension is what I’m puzzled by
Don’t forget the physics of holding the door.
With a wide, short door you have to hang it on the short side, and less space for hinges, which leads to large forces on the hinges.
A wide, tall door allows you to use more hinges, spread out, along a longer side and smaller forces on each hinge.
This makes even more sense with doors made with heavy materials, such as various metals. A heavy door needs more hinges, and a tall door has room for more hinges.
I’m a skunk sweetie I wouldn’t know anything about holding doors but I asked the expert and he said you’re right
Seriously though that makes a lot of sense thank you!
Multiple use, large and hard to break down in a siege, large enough to let plenty of traffic through of various sizes.
Also that processions thing people are talking about, that makes a lot of sense to me too