7. Why Most Public Building Doors Swing Outward — It’s Not Random
Next time you push open the door at a mall, office, or theater, notice: almost every public door opens outward. It’s a fire-safety rule — in an emergency, crowds can push the doors open easily without getting crushed against them. Inward doors would create deadly bottlenecks.
You’ve walked through thousands of these doors and never connected the dots to basic crowd-safety physics. For people over 35 who remember old buildings with inward-swinging doors, it suddenly explains why modern architecture feels so different. Safety hiding in the push, not the pull.
