HORIZONTAL+CIRCULATION

The design of horizontal circulation determines the basic shape and character of the entire structure. There are four practical requirements of any horizontal circulation system:

1.-Adequate size

2.- Should work well in all the directions

3.- Points of converging traffic must be expressed

4.- Changes in level must be clearly expressed

Pensilvania Station- New York

Centro Soyos building- Moscow

Palace the justice- Paris

The horizontal circulation has an aesthetic value as well as a functional value. The easiest type of progression is in a straight line, when the focal point can serve as the sign of directional changing in circulation, by showing that the circulation ends there or that he has to take a changing direction. Sometimes the circulation gives pattern and unity to the building.

Circulations are necessary elements establishing the relationships between the circulations happen itself in the form of the entire structure.