CIRCULATION

Building Approach

Before we enter a building we approach it along a path, it can be frontal, oblique, or it can spiral.


Building Entrances

The entrance of a building penetrates the vertcal plane and define the exterior space from the interior. It can be defined in many ways; entrance can be flush, projected or recessed. Entrances also reinforce boundaries


Configuration of the Path

 

 A path of movement in which we are taken though a sequences of spaces to our destination. A path can be linerar, radial, spiral, grid, network, or composite


Path-Space Relationships

Refer to they way paths are related t the spaces they link. Pass by Spaces are when the integrity of each space in maintained. Pass through Space is when the path cuts though a space and creates patterns of rest and movement within that space. Terminate in a Space is when the location of the space establishes the path and the path ends there.



Form of the Circulation Space

The movement within a space is important, it defines boundaries, relates the spaces it links, effects the quality of scale, proportion and light. It can be enclosed, open on one side or open one both sides.