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Cleveland State University Student Center

The Cleveland State main idea is to create a campus with open connections with the city, but also offering a wide range of services to students. Located on the Euclid Avenue this campus is one of the project based in the main idea of integrate the campus to the city and everything that happen there. With this purpose in mind the design of the building is focuses on this connections that is one of the reason why the campus has such a great system of horizontal and vertical circulation in order to integrate the campus activities to the things that happen the street.



The circulation system connects the campus with the street and with the plaza behind it. As we can see in the pictures the entry to the building from the Euclid Avenue is by the main entrance that face directly to the street. entry also connects with the campus pedestrian bridges, the main plaza and below grade parking. All of these elements of connections is what we call the horizontal circulation of this Student center.



The vertical circulation is all around the building this one in guide by the distribution of the 3 stories that present the building. Each one of this carried out different types of activities like conference room, hotel guestroom, and so on. The vertical circulation of the campus is not about elevators and stairs only it also have another elements that connect every storie depending of the activity that each one of them aloud to do.

In my opinion this is a great example of how a building can be related to it´s context and the things that surround it without loosing the relationship between the interior spaces.



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