GustavoPetit

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The library in Salt Lake City was inaugurated in February of 2003. It’s five floor high and counts with multiple spaces. The plaza is embraced by a walkable wall with stores and services; a reading gallery and a 300 seats auditory. It counts on multiple levels with reading rooms that give a view to the plaza. Also it has a roof-top garden that offers a of 360 degrees view of the Salt Lake Valley. The Urban Room between the library and the crescent wall is a space for all seasons, generously endowed with daylight and open to magnificent views. **





The library is a 5-floor horizontal building, as it was mentioned. There are present the fundamental aspects about horizontal circulation, but also aspects of vertical circulation exist. In the first instance the walkable wall emphasizes the form and circulation through the library. In spite of the metropolitan scale, the rhythmic composition gives human scale to the interior of the building, by being modulated according to the standard proportions of a floor; that’s one of the horizontal circulation requests: To be adecuate in size.



Anyway, another request is satisfied. The build, internally is composed by a beginning and an ending. The walkable wall generates space, and elements of crowning define internal circulation through, doing it viable in both directions, well known as directness. ** ** Finally, for horizontal circulation, the points of convergence are clearly defined. Is a building, that by their good contextual relation and with outside exits are clearly defined. **