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The Salt Lake City Public Library is a mixture of volumes that join with the square forming a set. These volumes are a rectangle, a triangle that possesses curved sides and a great ramp that divides from the public space up to the top level. The horizontal circulation performs great importance in this building for the function of integration that possesses, that is to say, the curves that they find in the fronts together with the particular form of the corridors, vertical stairs and elevators generates what in architecture movement is said to him, all these elements are joined across the space that they create and that allows not only a physical connection of the space but also a visual connection, highlighting that these so particular connections it is in the horizontal circulation.

The building possesses three basic ways of its acceding, the vertical stairs, the elevators and the ramp, its contribution is in the design of these three pieces, a stairs in spiral that beside being very agreeable visually, it is allowed that the observer should experience the space little by little giving it different visual angles, the ramp is the most spectacular element that possesses this building since it allows a direct relation of the public space integrating it overhead and for below with the work, in addition, it recognizes the importance that has the context at the moment of doing architecture, the elevator though it is not so showy compared with other two pieces, also form - space was taken in account in the concept of union.

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