What’s on the Circulation poster
A 6-row table: Pattern · Buys · Costs.
Each pattern buys something and costs something.
- Linear corridor — Simple, cheap, legible — Long, can be dull
- Double-loaded — Most rooms per metre — One aspect, dark middle
- Single-loaded — Daylight both sides — More wall per room
- Central core — Short routes, compact — Deep plan, needs depth
- Courtyard loop — Daylight, orientation — Long perimeter
- Open network — Choice, encounter — Easy to get lost
Educational reference. Escape route widths and travel distances are set by building regulations, not by preference.
Questions about the Circulation poster
- What’s on the Circulation poster?
- A 6-row table: Pattern · Buys · Costs. Each pattern buys something and costs something. Linear corridor — Simple, cheap, legible — Long, can be dull; Double-loaded — Most rooms per metre — One aspect, dark middle; Single-loaded — Daylight both sides — More wall per room; Central core — Short routes, compact — Deep plan, needs depth; Courtyard loop — Daylight, orientation — Long perimeter; Open network — Choice, encounter — Easy to get lost. Educational reference. Escape route widths and travel distances are set by building regulations, not by preference.
- Who is the Circulation poster for?
- Circulation belongs to the Architecture section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning design method can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Circulation poster?
- Circulation is usually 15 to 30 per cent of the area. Design it, do not let it appear. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Circulation belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Circulation?
- Human Dimensions, Reading the Brief and The Concept Diagram sit alongside Circulation in the Architecture section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Human DimensionsReading the BriefThe Concept Diagram
- Is the Circulation poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Circulation downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Architecture section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Circulation poster print at?
- Circulation is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Circulation loses nothing.Printing guide
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