Circulation_Types

media type="custom" key="19562694" align="right" In the Generali Tower, located in La Defencé, Paris, the same traces of the city, the streets and boulevards that surround the building are the ones that bring the shapes of the building to the designer, making it an organic process for them.



The building is made of steel, all its structure and some parts of its façade, but mostly it is cover in glass, giving the user a full view of the surrounding areas of it. When people is moving outside the building, they follow the directions marked by the traces of the building (the same of the city, the streets and boulevards), and when they get into it, is like a new whole world is above them, but they keep following the same building traces and directional changes that the condition that it's been designed using the initial city plans. On the models of the building, we can see that it is a very technological building that modernizes the city of Paris and also its location, that apparently is in a very centric place, giving us a sign that this building is going to be an iconic place in the city.

Its access is in the ground floor, making it easy for pedestrians to get in there, and also any kind of vehicle can get close to it because the streets are envolving the area, like it was some kind of oasis in between the avenues.

As the video shows, the Generali tower is mean to be an office building, so most of its users are people that works there and spends most of their daily time in the building, which explains the need of having stores, cafeterias and restaurants in the main floors, so they can solve their need without leaving the work- place.


 * Types of Circulation that will take place inside and outside the building **


 * __Horizontal Circulation __**

//Inside: // Inside the building are corridors that connect the spaces. Some of them are on the front, to generate views and are illuminated.

// Outside: // One of the higher levels, the runner leaves the building, walking around the part as a terrace.

Horizontal circulation outside connects the exterior to the interior of the building, corridors as shown in the right image.

__**Vertical Circulation **__

//Inside: // On the ground floor near the access is a series of escalators that connect only with the top level

Also as vertical circulation inside, There are lifts

//Outside: // Instead on the outside, near the other access is as vertical circulation stairs, which are outdoors.