Let you decode and appreciate the details of Shanghai-style architecture: \”entry doors with different styles\”

A door is an opening component on a building wall that connects indoors and outdoors or indoors and indoors. The main function of the door is to provide access to traffic. The door also plays a role in regulating and controlling sunlight, airflow, sound, fire prevention, and anti-theft. For the interior and exterior facades of a building, how to design the location, size, appearance and details of the door is very important. The construction material of the door and the texture and style of the hardware accessories play a very important role in interior decoration. Doors are an important component of buildings. With the advancement of construction technology, their functions, shapes, materials and detailed structures are constantly changing to adapt to the development of the times and the requirements of people\’s use and aesthetic improvement.

△The main entrance of Shanghai Children\’s Palace (formerly Sir Kadoorie\’s Residence)

Shanghai-style architectural door

Shanghai-style architecture is a special A product formed under certain historical conditions, it has the characteristics of being open to all rivers, being eclectic, having different forms, and allowing a hundred flowers to bloom. It always maintains the characteristics of tolerance, implicitness, magnanimity, innovation and integration. As an important carrier of Shanghai-style culture, it presents the characteristics of Shanghai University. Unique character of urban style. The shape of Shanghai-style architectural doors fully absorbs the essence of Western foreign culture without losing the connotation and temperament of national culture. In Shanghai-style architecture, the door styles are diverse and colorful. Common styles include Baroque style, Georgian style, neoclassical style, Victorian style, Art Nouveau style, Art Deco style, and modern architectural movement style. Their appearance forms, The production process and construction technology explain the detailed characteristics of components such as Shanghai-style architectural doors.

(1) Gothic-style doors

Shanghai-style Gothic doors are more common in some church buildings. The size and position of the door opening and door leaf depend on the entrance and exit. The passage and its structure, the door head shape is mostly four-centered The arch (that is, a shallow arch rising towards the center point) shows the characteristics of Gothic pointed arches. The spandrels may have decorative details. The side walls of the door are often equipped with concave and convex decorative moldings to form a perspective outer frame, which is opposite to the door frame. It plays a protective and decorative role. There is often a door cover or a protruding cornice in front of the door. The shape and structure of the door leaf are relatively simple.

△The entrance door of Holy Trinity Christian Church

△The entrance gate of Xujiahui Catholic Church

（ 2) Baroque style door

The Shanghai Baroque style door looks as festive as a stage background, and at the same time has a majestic look like a military camp gate. There are colonnades or pilasters and columns on its sides. It may be a simple Doric column, but it may look full of decoration or excessively luxurious. If there is decoration, it may be fluted or twisted. Or richly decorated with panels. The door is placed at the top of the steps, covered with an awning or portico, and has a pediment or an inscription. The pediment can be simple, ending with a scroll, or with double carvings and inscriptions. Gooseneck style scroll door. There are single and double leaves. The door leaves generally have square and rectangular panels, and the panel lines are very delicate.

△ Entrance gate of the Bank Association Building

△Shanghai Post Office entrance gate

(3) Georgian style door

Georgian doors flanked by pilasters or rustic door frames, exterior doors The head has a variety of cantilevered door hoods in the form of pediments, with brackets used to support the door hood. The brackets are decorated with cherubs or animals or plants as decorative patterns, or are designed as traditional scrolled corbels. The pilasters follow precise rules of proportion. The door leaf itself is paneled with two vertical rows of parallel panels. The interior doors evolve in the same pattern, with a flat door frame style with frame edges and other nodal details to suit the interior environment.

△ Entrance gate map of Yuan Yifeng Building on the Bund

△Sun Apartment Entrance Gate

(4) Neoclassical style door

△China Everbright Bank’s inner door

△Inner door of the History Museum

(5) Victorian style door

△Ruijin Hotel Inner Door

△Exterior door of Ruijin Hotel

(6) Art Nouveau Movement Dynamic style door

The form of the Shanghai Art Nouveau style door is that the entrance consists of outwardly unfolding lines or simple pilasters instead of regular door pilasters, and the vertical components in the frame are combined with The lintels on the columns are connected. At the outdoor entrance, semi-circular side walls with an organic curvilinear form extend outward from the columns to form rain canopies. Stained glass is an important part of outdoor doors. The decoration of the glass echoes the colorful tiles in the porch, which create a rhythm, or a pattern, or even a vivid landscape.

△Exterior doors of historical buildings in Xuhui District

△Outer door of Rong\’s old house

(7) Art Deco Style doors

Shanghai-style Art Deco style doors have simple porches, and some porches cantilever out directly from the second floor. Influenced by modernism, the doors have no fixed form, and the focus is It is the use of decorative elements. Most of the forms are a window or a door panel with carved patterns embedded in a stepped outer frame. Some door leaves are large in size. The doors are made of glass, reinforced with iron or copper art to create different styles of natural or abstract patterns. Some have sunny patterns, and the number of components on the door is greatly reduced. Some wooden doors are equipped with small Art Deco windows, shaped like diamonds. Or heart-shaped. Some are carved with dark wood panels or embellished with metal components to create Art Deco style features.

△Paragon Ballroom Entrance Gate

△Peace Hotel Gate

(8) Modern Architecture Movement Style Door

Shanghai Style Modern Architecture Movement Style Door Abandoned redundant decoration and achieved broad unity Appearance. Plywood began to be used and replaced solid wood panels. Plywood was used for both exterior and interior doors. Glass doors also became popular, and hardwood framed doors with large pieces of glass were very fashionable. Fixtures were kept to a minimum, and steel and glass exterior doors came on the market, becoming the new favorite in modern new construction.

△The main door of the Municipal Federation of Trade Unions Building

△Bank of Communications Gate