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**media type="file" key="quiz 4.wav"The Cleveland State University Center **

The Cleveland State University Student Center is located in Cleveland, Ohio, and was designed and built in 2010 by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects with Braun & Steidl Architects.

This building is divided into various spaces - bookstore, dining, lounge, computer access, and offices for student activities and conference meeting spaces on three stories around a central atrium. The Euclid Avenue main entry leads directly into this skylit circulation and activity space which will also connect with campus pedestrian bridges, the main plaza and below grade parking.

The building’s three levels are organized as follows.

Level one provides street level access to the atrium floor, bookstore, pub, and cyber lounge as well as to ramp circulation that leads to a redesigned outdoor plaza.

The second level contains the primary dining and food court areas as well as a convenience store and student senate office suite. It also provides direct access to the campus-wide interior walkway system.

On the third level are located a large, flexible conference center; pre-function spaces; and the student life administration and student office suite that includes interconnected lounge and conference rooms. There is also an outdoor terrace fronting Euclid Avenue.

The concept of circulation through the building is based on a horizontal circulation and vertical circulation. This concept in reinforced through circulation elements. For example the gentle slopes and ramps in the entrance of the building create horizontal circulation, but the stairs on both sides of the conference room create vertical circulation.

Basically, we can connect circulation elements in this building to vertical or horizontal spaces. The vertical, main space is the conference room because of its height, which you can access through stairs. On the other hand, the semi-circular space, is meant to be a horizontal space because of its length and circulation. After this study of the Student Center we can assume that the design of horizontal circulation throughout the building determines the basic shape and character of the entire structure, but is interrupted with the vertical space of the conference room and its vertical circulation.

