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media type="file" key="quiz 4.wma"The Salt Lake City Library.

It is an architectural creation in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Our purpose on this written work is analyzing the building´s horizontal and vertical circulation, on the way to increase architectonical knowledge and practice writing and speaking English. At the first part we are going to observe the building in a general way and, through the analysis, we´re going to get to specific points one by one. This building is based on breaking up with the traditional horizontal and vertical axes, and it does that with the diagonal line. Designs with diagonal line are most common in the modern era. This particular style is transferred to the majority of the aspects which conform the construction, between them including the structure (in the photos is easy to appreciate that, the columns are slightly tilted), the spatiality, and of course, the circulation. Also, the building has circular plants, so it´s general form is cylindrical. Talking about the horizontal circulation, corridors tend to follow the pattern of diagonal line; each corridor in the building is surrounding the building, and at the same is getting some high, in other words, each corridor is actually a long ramp around the building.

About vertical circulation, we could see that spaces designated to stairs, equally, follows a pattern of diagonal line but in this case it´s a line with an angle closer to ninety grades, that means, a line more vertical that horizontal (the same followed by columns ). All of these elements give movement to the building, like it´s spatially turning on its axis always in the same direction.

So in this kind of design, despite the diagonal line, we can differentiate horizontal circulation from the vertical one by the tilt angle that the space has. Finishing the work, it isn´t so impressionist this design only for the movement that the spaces and circulations transmit, but also for the game that diagonal lines make on the way to challenge gravity. Why? Well if you look the front façade, it seems like the construction is falling down to the side; that happens because of the form of the columns. But all the structure is solid and static like an armature. Awesome.



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