Explore 5 types of architectural circulation: crucial for comfort and building navigation. Learn how to design seamless and intuitive pathways.
Single Continuous Escalators provide connections to subsequent building levels by connecting them directing with one-way circulation. Unlike discontinuous layouts, continuous designs provide users with quick and efficient vertical circulation between multiple levels. Continuous Escalators (Single) have a combined height of 29.5’ (9 m), length of 41’ (12.5 m), and common width between 8’-10’8” (2.44-3.28 m). Dimensions will vary based on the desired length and height.
The structure of the Rode Torenbridge has a steel deck of 2 cm supported by a central arch and two ribbons with a thickness of 6 cm. The dissociation of the arch gives the possibility to equilibrate the asymmetrical charges by transforming the twisting moment into vertical charges on the arches. By studying and using different typologies (steel beam bridge, arched bridge, truss beam bridge) we resulted in a bridge with a strong identity. The arch form of the under structure is the consequence of a form-finding process. The geometry has for that reason an optimal behavior relating to strain and traction. The structural choices gave us the opportunity to design the bridge as an extreme minimalist element, which depending on the angle you look at it, will be visible or not.
Single Continuous Escalators provide connections to subsequent building levels by connecting them directing with one-way circulation. Unlike discontinuous layouts, continuous designs provide users with quick and efficient vertical circulation between multiple levels. Continuous Escalators (Single) have a combined height of 29.5’ (9 m), length of 41’ (12.5 m), and common width between 8’-10’8” (2.44-3.28 m). Dimensions will vary based on the desired length and height.
A standards staircase, also known as stairs, stairwell, or stair room, is a room in any type of building where a staircase is located...
Image 1 of 24 from gallery of Bayes Centre / Bennetts Associates. Photograph by Keith Hunter
The fourth of the architectural diagram types is circulation diagrams. In this series, we try to explain architectural diagrams in every sense and help architects and architecture students. Circulation diagrams, one of the most used architectural diagrams, are our subject in this article. If you want to learn everything to create a circulation diagram, read […]
Image 23 of 37 from gallery of Nanchang Shimao Water City Cloud Office Center / Dplus-Studio. Site Relationship
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FAU, the school of architecture and urbanism at the University of Sao Paulo was designed by João Batista Vilanova Artigas and opened in 1969. Artigas, a hero of Sao Paulo modernism (in contrast to the Carioca school for whom Brasilia was their crowning achievement), helped to develop the school's curriculum based on a Bauhaus-style method of valuing technical skills, history & theory, and design equally. "The formal concept of the FAU USP successfully creates an alleatory and dynamic space of function and “doing” (as Artigas mentions distinctly and consciously different than “exhibiting”). Artigas vertically stratified the types of space, maintaining connection with a uniform spatial condition. Program in the building is situated around a central void, connected by limited but monumental forms of vertical circulation, framing the void itself. "The vertical enclosure is lifted off the ground floor to invite people into a space ultimately left open to the elements for ventilation and general comfort. This immense formal juxtaposition of a large opaque mass hovering above a small open breezeway focuses programmatic activity inwards toward the atrium and central hall while allowing for varying degrees of privacy in relation to the wall and void." “The FAU-USP, both as building and pedagogy, stands as a reminder of Artigas’ attempt to establish dissidence through pedagogy, resistance through design. Most recently, the 2011 general student strike on its premises specifically protested the continued existence of residual power structures established by the military dictatorship. The present building, filled with the protest graffiti of generations of students, points to both the pedagogy and the architecture of a school designed for dissent.” Ana Maria Leon, “Designing Dissent” earlier quotations from: www.nickaxel.net/projects/007_AUP.html
the next structure to join miami beach's growing collection of parking garages, this minimalist and playful spiral of ramps creates an urban street space within the building.
“The residential commission allows one to formulate ideas and develop a set of principles that, one hopes will inform future works for a long time to come.” Richard Meier Richard Meier, has been associated with recognizable use of its own language in the field of architecture. This language has some formal characteristic that has…
The White Gallery is located in Tehran and designed by [Shift] Process Practice (Nashid Nabian and Rambod Eilkhani). the project has won the 1st prize...
This concert hall in Mérida, Mexico, comprises a building faced with metal ribs that encloses a central plaza for public performances.
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Image 19 of 21 from gallery of Hua Qiang Bei Road / Work AC. Pedestrian diagram © Work AC
Image 21 of 31 from gallery of The University of Kansas DeBruce Center for the Original Rules of Basketball / Gould Evans. Diagram
