Circulation_architecture



The circulation spaces are the link between one or several levels, whose purpose is to allow accessibility and interaction as well as the mobility and flow of people and materials between them. With this in mind, I think a good example of movement in the field of architecture at **Centre Georges Pompidou.**



The **Pompidou Center** is the name most commonly used to refer to the National Center of Art and Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris (France) designed by the then young architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. It was inaugurated on January 31, 1977.

The center was built during the reign of French President Georges Pompidou, who died before the building was finished. It was his successor, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who inaugurated it in 1977.

Functional elements such as pipes and ladders facilities, painted bold colors, stood visible from the outside, forming a network of bars, tubes and elements, sometimes no function, giving a technological and strident, intended in the project.

When removing items outside space is released, leaving open interior. The interior gets the same tangle technology for image tubes placed in the light installations on the roofs, ceiling coated only with the works of art exhibited.





This structure is clearly observed both circulations. When we speak of horizontal circulation spaces we refer to the interrelation between different environments of a building, where the person moves without change levels, both in public buildings and in private use; example (corridors, hallways, passages, paths, sidewalks). When we speak of vertical circulation spaces we refer to destindos the movement of people, materials, etc. between different levels of a building. This can occur through: Stairs, ramps, elevators, lifts, escalators.

The Pompidou Center has spaces or wide aisles where allows mobilization of people in and out of the place without any difficulty. It also has lots of stairs to allow access to other levels of the building and even on entry. 