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**The Student Center of Cleveland State University i**s a building that has differents spaces on the inside of the building: bookstore, dining, lounge, computer access, offices for student activities and conference meeting space. Also, on the outside of the building has sidewalks with natural light and landscape. 

The Building has 3 floors. The first floor provides the conection with street. The second level contains the primary dining and others food areas. It also provides direct access to the campuswide interior walkway system. On the third level are located a large, flexible conference center; pre function spaces There is also an outdoor terrace fronting Euclid Avenue.

In the aspect of horizontal circulation, The building has it´s principal entrance on the Euclid Avenue that leads directly to the atrium and connects to the main plaza. Also, the building has large and width corridors that doesn´t have a specific circulation direction. The building contains, as mentioned above, three floors that are around a center atrium. The atrium contains a system of walkways that connect the building with exterior spaces.



Now, in the aspect of the vertical circulation, in the floor plans of the building can be seen that basically the connection between the three floors is by stairs that are located at the same point through the entire structure. In addition, to facilitate communication between the three floors, the building has an elevator system. Ramps and walkways that lead out of the building are not as wide as the hallways inside the building, so there is not the same amount of people.



In my opinion, this student center is a building with a big architectural quality, that is designed very well in the aspect of circulation. I find very interesting that the structure is based on a central atrium and that communicates to the outside and inside the building. But I think that the ramps and walkways that give access to the outside should be slightly larger as a security, for example in case of an earthquake, people can safely leave this way.

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