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The Salt Lake City library is one of the most important libraries in the world, it is a building designed by architects than won a concourse to build it, it is located in Salt Lake in Utah, USA. This building is a masterpiece in different architectural aspects such as circulation, spatial relationships and magnificence of construction. This building has the importance to connect parts of the City of Salt Lake, working as a connector and a block in the way of the people, and this is the most important aspect talking about circulation.

The Salt Lake City Library has surrounding passages that connect the city to the building. It has different veins where the people can pass trough and connect the visual to the city and to the building at the same time. This is one of the references of the horizontal circulation of the building. It is more important in the surroundings of it and has the property of offering different sensation when the people is walking along the building, such as reflecting pools, a long ramp that can be being passed below and having different commercial locals to entertain people that pass trough there. Aspects related with this circulation in the exterior façades are the use of rhythm treatments in the glass of the principal façade and in the ramp.



The approach to the building is very clear and intentional by the use of long corridors to impact the people’s eyes. Inside the building the horizontal circulation is commonly made by corridors, and use of rhythm treatments in all the walls of the building. The surrounding vertical circulation system is magnificent, treated by the use of pure elements such stairs in one of the access and a ramp connecting this stairs to the building, but when the internal vertical system is analyzed, is amazing the different elements that we found.



The vertical circulation is not only the ideal of going up or going down, is also the ideal of feeling that you’re going up or going down. This spatial sensations where treated with the use of high roof in the halls of the building. The sensation of feeling in a very narrow space to walk but feeling also a long space to seeing up, and this is that indicates to the people that they have to go up. This circulation is reinforced with the use of stairs, elevators and escalators in all the building, giving easy access to all floors in it.



The Salt Lake City Library is a masterpiece in architectural design, offering different sensation in the surroundings and inside the building. The use of the building as a connector in the city gives it important aspects that help to improve the circulation system inside and outside. It’s comfortable, peacefully and very nice to walk outside the building to look it and feel it and inside it to be amazed of the magnificence of the library.

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