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= **On your page, write the description of the horizontal and vertical circulation of the Student Center and its surroundings. Use the following articles and podcast as reference: ** = = = = = =The Cleveland State University Student Center is located inside de college campus, offering the students a vital supports and services, to survive through an academic life. In this building we can see spaces for the delight of the students like a bookstore, print shop, convenience store, game area, meeting rooms, etc. Been a student’s structure,it has to be design to have a lot of people-movement inside, and the circulation aspect has to be one the most important thing of the project. I think that one of the ways of understanding a building circulation and surrounding is to walk through them. Right now the place is unreachable, so we will need the help of images and floor plans, to imagine being inside of the building. In this paragraph we will use resources found on the internet to imagine that we are one of the students of the CSU, where we will describe our trip through the student center and try to get from one place to another.= = = =When we first got to the university we can see the main entrance of the student center, this is a big entrance and we can approach it from more than one road. We pass through a small lobby and arrive to the atrium café. In this place the space feels free, because it has double height. The inner space of the building is composed of open spaces, like the double height campus connection lounge and a triple height main atrium, but it also has smaller and sectional spaces like de pub and conference areas. If we keep walking between the main atrium and the bookstore, we get to the center of the building where can we see the elevators and the main stairs. Also we can keep going and arrive to the third distribution point, this one communicate us to northeast and west wings of the structure. On those directions we can find other student areas, the communication entrance for the north plaza and the lateral entrances. The distribution of space of the main plan is very similar on the other floors, so in the second floor we can found the dinning, convenience stores, open spaces to below and we also can use the “innerlink” bridges that connect sthe student center with the east and west surrounding buildings. Finally in the third plan we can see more students’ areas, open spaces to below for the atrium and the terrace.= = = == =We can also see that if we want to go to one floor to another, we find that the building have a central point of vertical distribution with 4 elevators and a big stairs. It also have 4 stairs collocated on each corner of the building and another that comes from the north plaza, these ones allows the students not to depend on the slow elevators and if they are in a hurry, the building provides other ways to get to other floors.= = = =I think that in architecture, the circulation of a project is a big deal, and it is a full-size requirement of the good architecture design. In the CSU student center, we can see how the applications of the circulation elements connects all the spaces together. The halls and the corridors, allows people walk to one place to another, and its smaller size gives an expectation to the big ones, or gives the opportunity to watch other spaces from a separated location or galleries. The stairs and elevators communicate the floors in different ways providing the students the liberty of going to all the places they want, without passing through the same location of the building. Finally the whole combination of good horizontal and vertical circulation, as also the double and triple height spaces provides de students and the spectators a 3D feeling of the complement space, giving the sensation of a complete and well design place. Finally I should mention that the excellent design is not only for the inside of the building. The CSU student center is the focal point of a bigger scale project. Seening it form a urbanistic way, the student center is the building in charge of distribute big amounts of people, communicate them to the north plaza and other structural complexes and also been the main entrance of the whole campus.= = = =Recording quiz 4= =my own correction: people*, big*= = = =I invite you to watch this CSU video...= =media type="youtube" key="r1xpS4VTHpo?version=3" height="360" width="640"= =References:= =[|http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/217996/20110922/cleveland-state-university-student-cent][|er-gwathmey-siegel-associates-architects-with-braun-steidl-ar.htm?page=all]= =[]= =http://id2126dg2011.pbworks.com/f/VERTICAL_CIRCULATION_LE.pdf= =[]= =[]=
 * Introduction (explaining what you are going to do and information on the space to be described) - 2 points
 * body (at least 2 paragraphs, one on vertical circulation and one on horizontal circulation) - 4pts.
 * Conclusion (your opinion) - 2 pts.