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Cleveland state university has a new Student center, which is located in Cleveland, Ohio. The student center of a university is like the living room of the campus. This student center has a three-story skylit central atrium, bookstore, dining and food court, lounge space, computer access, offices for student activities, large divisible conference center, campus interlink, and a interior walkway system.



The horizontal circulation of the building was very well crafted. According to Ching’s book on circulation, this center has a central approach to the main room, but it has multiple approaches in which you can see The central block containing the atrium and interlink from street to campus, this is articulated in granite; the flanking walls and windows are clad in brick and aluminum. The student center has wide horizontal circulations because it consists of open wide spaces that connect with the rest of the campus, it also has different sky bridges that connects the center to the surrounding academic building, giving the building an additional dose of visual dynamism.



On the other hand, vertical circulation was equally and carefully designed too. The building has three levels: level one (which is the street level) provides the basic services available to all public (the bookstore) it has a ramp leads to a redesigned outdoor plaza; the ramp is perfectly located because it has a perfect view. The second floor provides direct access to the campus wide interior walkway system. The architectural work on the circulation elements is sufficiently  well distributed and allows a comfortably interaction between the different sides of the campus.

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