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** Cleveland State University Student’s Center Circulation **
This is a student's center on Cleveland State University. And actually is one of the most important buildings of the new CSU's master plan. In this building the circulation is essential, not just in its interior, but in its exterior too, because the way the building define and work with its surroundings and the way it affects the enviroment represents a determinant in the design of this building. This project has three levels with different purposes each one. The first level communicate the atrium floor, bookstore, pub and cyber lounge with the street and also has a ramp circulation that leads to a redesigned outdoor plaza wich helps to connect the building to its sorroundings. In the first floor we can observe the pedestrian entrace to the building. There's an spiral approach to the center, the street that sorrounds the building is the determinant of the approaching. In different places of the buildings are located staircases that represent the vertical circulation of the project. Those stairs distribute the people in the three levels. In the level two are the primary dining and food court areas, also there's a direct access to the campus-wide interior walkway system, that works as a distributor corridor creating dynamism in this floor. this corridor is the most important horizontal distributor in probably the entire building In the third floor there's a conference center, student life administration, student office suite (interconnected lounge, conference rooms, and a terrace with view to Euclid avenue). The most important part of the circulation of the building are the Euclid Avenue, its entrance, the campus-wide interior walkway and the stair system. In my opinion the environment develops the circulation project of this building, because of the important given to the Euclid Avenue, making it define the approach to the building and being the spiral of the existing environment. The interior of the center, adapts itself to the campus-wide interior walkway system showing how the morphology adapts to its dynamic, defined by the circulation system. In conclusion, this project shows how important is a circulation plan project and the way it affects the conception of the building, and it surroundings

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