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According to many people, being able to easily move about the city is just a common and normal ability, because very often they forget that for those with mobility impairments the built environment presents challenges daily. Free movement in pubic spaces is assumed by most people to be a right even if terms such as “architectural barriers” and “disability” have been already defined becoming one of the most important topic of our modern society. Even if the movement along streets and through buildings seems to be easy and normal for the great part of people, for some, however, these basic conditions are not adequately met. What we usualy define “disability”, in fact, is a condition that limits mobility,or otherwise inhibits a person’s ability to manipulate the environment with a “normal” degree of effort. For this reason, all the obstacles that lessen a disabled person’s access in many places are called “barriers”. They may be, for example, represented by parts of buildings just like narrow doorways and heavy doors that require excessive force to open. In order to make public and private built environments “user-friendly” it is possible now to use the so-called Ergon system: double-swing ERGON doors are, in fact, the ideal solution for disabled people. The longitudinal arch movement of the leaf and the double-swing system allow disabled people to enter or exit the same room simply by pushing the leaf and so the door is no longer an architectural barrier for handicapped people because, thanks to this special system, accessibility is improved and the disabled can move around much more easily. Let’s hope that these new solution will be applied in all public and private buildings as soon as possible.