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 * Cleveland State University **

Cleveland State University is a public university located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. It consists of a structure with predominately glass exterior of three stories that are built around a skylit central atrium. Today it is part of the University System of Ohio and has approximately 16,000 students and over 100,000 alumni. Its mission is to encourage excellence, diversity, and engaged learning by providing a contemporary and accessible education in the arts, sciences, humanities and professions, and by conducting research, scholarship, and creative activity across these branches of knowledge. Its main idea is to create a campus with open connections to the city, is searched integrating the campus into the city and everything that happens there. This university is great example to describe the horizontal and vertical circulation of the student center and its surroundings.

The circulation system connects the campus with the street and with the plaza behind it and is by the main entrances that face directly to the street. 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.



The vertical circulations vary throughout the structure, as it has both ramps and stairways. The vertical circulation of the campus is not about elevators and stairs only it also have another elements that connect depending of the activity that each one do.

In my opinion The Cleveland State University student center is the result of good architectural planning, and is a great example of how to use tools for circulation, regarding the space surrounding it. In conclusion is a very beautiful and nice place.

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