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Access gates

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about access gates

Project • By Ludwig Hansen Architects • Car Parks

Temporary Gatehouse

The objective of the project was to design a temporary security access gatehouse for the University of Mpumalanga for the period that the new main entrance is being constructed. A big challenge from the onset of the project was the extremely limited timeframe to implement the gatehouse paired with its temporary nature.  Caption A combined consciousness of time and temporality informed the design approach and explored the conversion of two 6m containers into a gatehouse facility that contains security offices, ablutions, pedestrian, and vehicular access control to the university campus.  Caption Beyond the time advantage of a container conversion, this construction method would give a physically lighter footprint onsite... More

Project • By Habibiears • Primary Schools

Islamic School Gate

In mid-September 2019 I've been requested by a client to Design a main gate for an Islamic Elementary School Located in Sragen, Central Java - Indonesia. It is inspired from The Grant Gate of Mecca (as requested by client), so then We adapted & set some things to be matched to the context such as; the dimension, proportion, material, construction methods, and space (room) needed for the security post. More