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Cleveland State University (also known as Cleveland State or CSU) is a public university located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. CSU's main campus in downtown Cleveland is bounded on the east and west by Interstate 90 and East 17th Street, respectively; and by Payne Avenue to the north and Carnegie Avenue on the south. It also has satellite campuses in Westlake, Ohio and Solon, Ohio, both in the Greater Clevenland metropolitan  area in Cuyahoga Country. CSU´s will enhance its campus image and create an open connection with the city while offering a wide range of services to students and faculty. Fronting on the main thoroughfare to downtown Cleveland, Euclid Avenue, the center will become the central campus’s public gateway and begin the second phase of CSU’s master plan to integrate the campus with the bustling avenue and nearby theaters and stores.
 * __Cleveland State University Student Center__**

Now, the University manages to integrate with its surroundings in terms of horizontal movement. Within the university internal spaces are connected with campus pedestrian bridges. We can see that the design of horizontal circulation has determined some shape and character of the entire structure in the CSU´s.

The university has as the main facade three floors-building which refer to vertical movement due to having several areas of common interest that achieve connections with stairs and lifts which have the function of distribute the people by linking the three levels in order to improve the dynamism inside all of the building. Both vertical and horizontal circulations work together to define the structure and the relationship between the building and the environment.

In conclusion I can say that the Student Center has been a successful idea that not only considered the structure as a whole, but all the elements that form the surroundings. I agree with the CSU´s definition of the architecture. They said that architecture is responsible for fundamental human needs and a way of organizing space while meeting practical demands.media type="file" key="QUIZ G.wma" width="300" height="300"