claudiocenedese

The circulation in a public building is one of the most important element to consider at the moment of designing a building.

The Salt Lake City Library is a great building. When you see it you can noticed that looks magnificent, like a sculptural piece, because of the scale and shape of the building.

The main entrance to the library, off the public arcade, reveals a skylight atrium. It establishes both the public vertical circulation and horizontal circulation of the building, and it makes it part of the space. This magnificent atrium becomes in the main distribution space of the building. This space generates a pleasant feeling when you  go round  through the different spaces of the library.

In this principal space, we can define and recognize all the levels of the library. This atrium has a great scale for a distribution space in a public building. This is very important because a public building should have a  good circulation plan to work well in either direction and to facilities a rapid  exit when it’s needed, because of the amount of people that currently visit this kind of building, and The Salt Lake City Library was designed perfectly for this purpose. []

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