Linking Building-Circulation Typology and Way-Finding in Architecture

Understanding how people interpret building circulation is a crucial topic for architectural design and planning. To assess this, a proposal of a cognitive–architectural description of circulation typology. Based on a prominent architectural case, explaining modifications in building layouts. Hereby, developing three distinct circulation types, linear, curved, and grid- based, which differ in their geometrical structure but are comparable in their functional organizations and topological organizations.. Based on the subjective judgments, the linear circulation is the easiest of the three circulation types and the grid based the most difficult, while the curved circulation is intermediate of the two. This is only partially in line with the results of the objective analyses.