In Detail: Designing Circulation Areas • Stairs, Ramps, Lifts, Routing, Planning Principals

A Necessary Evil Or A Fascinating Design Task? This Book Is About Making Building Components And Spaces Accessible In The Horizontal And Vertical Direction While Taking Into Account A Wide Variety Of Requirements. When Architects Make It Into The Pivotal Element Of Their Concepts, They Often Create Compelling Yet Surprising Room Constellations: Spectacular Lifts And Escalators, Unusual Floor Plan Arrangements Or Stairway Sculptures That Define The Space Provide Staging For The Required Pathways. Circulation Areas Take On The Characteristics Of An Amenity And Become An Exciting Spatial Experience As Well As A Crucial Criterion Of A Successful Design. The Separation Between Circulation Areas And Space Dissolves, Because Circulation Areas Become A Space Of Sojourn And Communication. The Concept Of Circulation / Christian Schittich -- Circulation Areas -- Places For Interaction Or An El Dorado For Building Regulations? / Arno Lederer -- Planning Criteria -- A Cultural History Of Elevators And Lifts / Jeannot Simmen -- Light Design For Orientation And Direction / Thomas Schielke -- Signage -- Effective Orientation / Jimmy Schmid -- Cable Cars In The City -- Large-scale Aerial Urban Circulation Systems / Oliver Herwig -- Summary Of Projects -- Apartment Building In Zurich / Graber Pulver Architekten, Zurich/bern -- Residential Development In Berlin / Zanderroth Architekten, Berlin -- Haus Am Weinberg In Stuttgart / Unstudio, Amsterdam -- House Before House In Utsunomiya / Sou Fujimoto Architects, Tokyo -- Centre For Senior Citizens In Maienfeld / Arbeitsgemeinschaft Isler Gysel/bhend.klammer Architekten, Zurich -- Apartment Mound In Copenhagen Big / Bjarke Ingels Group, Copenhagen; Jds Architects, Copenhagen -- Hostel In Split / Studio Up, Zagreb --^ Hotel Am Domplatz In Linz / Hohensinn Architektur, Graz -- Children's Hospital In Basel / Stump & Schibli Architekten, Basel -- Cooper Union In New York / Morphosis Architects, Culver City -- High School In Copenhagen / 3xn, Copenhagen -- Municipal Library In Stuttgart / Eun Young Yi, Cologne -- Advertising Agency In Tokyo / Klein Dytham Architecture, Tokyo -- Office Building In Bolzano / Markus Scherer, Meran -- Aachenmünchener Headquarters In Aachen / Kadawittfeldarchitektur, Aachen -- Restaurant And Bar In Zurich / Burkhatter Sumi Architekten, Zurich -- Pharmacy In Athens / Klab Architecture, Athens/london -- Town Hall In Bad Aibling / Behnisch Architekten, Munich -- Café And Exhibition Spaces In Braganca / Giulia De Appolonia, Brescia -- Beachfront Promenade In Benidorm / Oab -- Office Of Architecture In Barcelona -- Festival Arena In Roman Quarry In St. Margarethen / Alleswirdgut Architektur, Vienna -- Opera House In Oslo / Snøhetta, Oslo --^ Porsche Museum In Stuttgart / Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, Vienna -- Armani Fifth Avenue New York / Doriana And Massimiliano Fuksas, Rome -- New York Times Building In New York Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Paris; Fxfowle Architects, New York -- Office Building In Sydney Ingenhoven Architects, Düsseldorf; Architectus, Sydney -- Stadium In Kiev / Gmp . Architekten Von Gerkan, Marg Und Partner, Hamburg -- Porject Data -- Architects. Christian Schittich (ed.) ; [translation, Antoinette Aichele-platen, Alistair Gray, Yasmin Gründing]. Includes Bibliographical References. "Infrastructure provision" doesn't sound very interesting at first, more like the necessary evil of making building components and spaces accessible in the horizontal and vertical direction while taking into account a wide variety of requirements. That's why the ever more frequently encountered fresh interpretations of this design task by architects who take it as the pivotal element of their concepts, resulting in surprising yet compelling space configurations, are even more interesting. Spectacular lifts and escalators, unusual floor plan arrangements or stairway sculptures that define the space provide staging for the required pathways. Infrastructure takes on the characteristics of an amenity and becomes an exciting spatial experience as well as a crucial criterion of a successful design. The separation between infrastructure and space dissolves, because the infrastructure becomes a space of sojourn and communication. The volume at hand, in accordance with the typological approach of the series, shows the entire spectrum of interesting options for infrastructure provision, starting with school construction which, far from the "never ending hallway" character, already seizes upon current work methods in the draft stage and enables future-oriented learning and continuing on to innovative concepts for residential, cultural and transport facilities, the sporting and working worlds, and even landscape planning. Alongside these extensive project documentations that provide a great deal of inspiration and stimulate new ideas, theoretical contributions of renowned specialist authors illuminate the topic in addition to the planning basics in regard to route guidance, steering of visitor flows, orientation in space, accessibility for the disabled and the important task of light planning The concept of circulation Circulation areas – places for interaction or an El Dorado for building regulations? Planning criteria A cultural history of elevators and lifts Light design for orientation and direction Signage – effective orientation Cable cars in the city – large-scale aerial urban circulation systems Summary of projects Apartment building in Zurich Residential development in Berlin Haus am Weinberg in Stuttgart “House before House” in Utsunomiya Centre for senior citizens in Maienfeld Apartment mound in Copenhagen Hostel in Split Hotel am Domplatz in Linz Children’s hospital in Basel Cooper Union in New York High school in Copenhagen Municipal library in Stuttgart Advertising agency in Tokyo Office building in Bolzano AachenMünchener headquarters in Aachen Restaurant and bar in Zurich Pharmacy in Athens Town hall in Bad Aibling Café and exhibition spaces in Bragança Beachfront promenade in Benidorm Festival arena in Roman quarry in St. Margarethen Opera house in Oslo Porsche Museum in Stuttgart Armani Fifth Avenue in New York New York Times Building in New York Office building in Sydney Stadium in Kiev Project data – architects Authors Illustration credits

Staged paths and innovative floorplan concepts