Final+Project

[] Hi my name is Stephanie Clemente and this video will touch these points: color, texture, lighting, acoustic, rhythm, vertical and horizontal circulation and finally space and scale. All this in Venezuelan architecture.
 * What makes Venezuela unique from an architectural perspective? **

Carabobo Street is an example of colonial architecture in the heart of Maracaibo. One of the things most striking is the colorful houses with bright colors and tropical. This choice of strong colors is used to protect against the sun and bring joy to its inhabitants. Blue contrasts with the reds and yellows.
 * COLOR **



In the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning of the UCV, light plays a very important roll in the design of the building. Use natural light supplemented with artificial lighting. To the north wing opens full visual facade of the mountain and gives off in a solar gesture of protection an expressive skin brie-soleil, and south, a pierced wall serves as protection the intense tropical light.
 * LIGHT **



In Venezuela, texture can be seen in the building’s facade, commonly they are of different materials as concrete, stone, zinc, brick, among other. In this way, an example of this use is the Simon Bolivar University. It is a public institution located in Miranda State, Venezuela with scientific and technological orientation. No just the facades have textures, in the USB there are many sculptures with textures too, may be with visual textures or tactile texture, but both too. For example sculptures of ceramic and metal.
 * TEXTURE **



The Aula Magna of the UCV is consider among one of five rooms with the best acoustics in the world. Combining technology and art with the Flying Saucers or Floating Clouds designed by Alexander Calder, reflective sound panels, wood from veneer on a steel frame and suspended above the false ceiling plaster. Not only gives dynamism and color to the room, but also an impeccable acoustics.
 * ACOUSTICS **



The use of rhythm on architecture is very important and is a feature taken into account on many buildings of this country. Each type of rhythm can be found on different Venezuelan constructions and designs. It is a feature that can contribute to the power of great structures.
 * RHYTHM **

‍For example, a building of comercial apartments in the city of Caracas has repetition of shapes on its windows and semi-circular details that are repeated on every level of the building.

In Manzanares, there is a group of towers where we can clearly appreciate the repetition of dimensions.



The circulation on campus is mostly horizontal, because connects diverse structures of the university but we can also distinguish that that connection in some points presents itself with the use of a ramp or stairs. Circulation in the buildings is vertical, generated by stairs, and horizontal, through corridors.
 * <span style="color: #b3a2c7; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">CIRCULATION **



<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">The Cover Square of the UCV, doesn’t have a uniform scale; it’s plays with different high and relates diverse buildings so it is in constant change. But they all relate with humans. There isn’t any place where people feel uncomfortable.
 * <span style="color: #b3a2c7; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">SCALE **

<span style="font-family: 'tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">


 * CONCLUSION **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">The Venezuelan architecture has all the aspects needed to be considered good architecture. But there is a problem, is that modern architecture in Venezuela, can be considered more attractive because it uses more color combination, texture, lighting, acoustics, rhythm, correct circulation, and scale. This architecture is unfortunately not the entire country but only in certain areas. On the other hand, there's oldest areas, which have largely neglected structures and therefore are not as beautiful.media type="youtube" key="ZeWdOSwsjiw" width="425" height="350"