Ch5: Circulation

Building Approach

A path for approaching to a building is the first circulation system before getting into a building. It could be disigned as a frontal, oblique, and spiral approach. The frontal approach is a straight path leading  to the entrance; while the spiral approach is a curved path that people need to go around to get into the space. The picture above is the oblique approach which is the path that is redirected several times to the entrance.  

Building Entrances

Building entrance is where people pass through to get into the inside of the space. The entrance could be framed like the above, or it could be showed by the vertical columns on both sides. Entrance should have enough space between walls or colums so that people can go through smoothly, and it should be welcoming. The shape of entrance can be designed in many ways.   

Configuration of the Path

The configuration of the path is the circulation. It could be linear, radial, spiral, grid, network, and composite. The picture above is the example of spiral configuration of the path; which the circulation starts from a point and goes around the circular path. 

Path-Space Relationship

When we walk through the hall way, we see that the path way is related to the space. The hall way can be linked with spaces in pass by spaces, pass through spaces, and terminta in a space. The diagram above is an example of the pass by spaces. The spaces all placed along side the hall way.

Form of the Circulation Space

There are three types of circulation paths: enclosed, open on one side, and open on both sides. The example above is the open one side path. We often see one side is a wall with some room, and ohter side is open to be able to see the outer or larger space.

 

*Images are from google image and freshhome website