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Hi, my name is Yunuwy Verde, I have 20 years old and studied architecture at the “Universidad Simón Bolívar”. This assignment is a brief overview of the architecture of Venezuela, explained according to the following: color, texture, light, rhythm, acoustic, vertical and horizontal circulation, space and scale. This in order to show the beauty of my country, despite having their bad things, it also has many beauties that nobody seems to see.



It is worth noting that Venezuela had a rather checkered history. He went from being a Spanish colony to being a free country in the nineteenth century. He went strong and oppressive dictatorships and major political upheavals. By the 20's went from being a country farmer to an exporter of oil, and with this change came also the modernity, without prior processing, as an imposition. At this time the dirt roads for the transit of workhorses became streets and highways for transit cars, and single-family houses began to be demolished to become multi-family housing and large office buildings. Currently, Venezuela is a great cloak of multicultural patches, and this is what creates an identity and a culture for Venezuelans.

COLOR

In Venezuela, the color is an important aspect. This is given by the abundant nature that is found throughout the Century and the country the quality and friendliness of the people. The Venezuelan color in architecture can be seen happily reflected in the colonial houses, we could find for example on “La Vela” from “Coro”, the bundle and the historic centers of cities and various Venezuelan towns. Also at the modern architecture of the color cities appears copying the tones of the Venezuelan nature, such as yellow, red, green and blue that we could see in the Central Library building of the UCV which dominates the rest by red tone, or “the tree to live” by Fruto Vivas in “lecherias”, Anzoátegui state, noted for its vivid colors from the rest of the buildings is contrasted against the sea and the sky so blue in the area.



LIGHT

Light is undoubtedly another important factor in Venezuela. Since our country has a warm climate with an incredibly bright sun that illuminates every corner of the country. Venezuelan architecture tries to take advantage where possible this quality, for example in the colonial houses with central patio and large windows through which the whole house is illuminated without artificial light during the day. “UCV” also takes this quality, diversity-soaked walls and roof openings that filter the sunlight and brightens up the space. But there are plenty of bad examples of the black cube with a black glass surface does not allow full passage of light and also causes excessive heating of the building resulting in a huge waste of energy, or that Cristal Parks a mirror, bouncing the sun's rays, which has caused several fires in the park from east.



TEXTURE

Texture that you can observe the architecture of our country is diverse and is mainly represented by the materials used. The smooth texture of concrete clean work we achieved in many buildings in the country as the “UCV”, the “Teresa Carreño” theater, among many other buildings, the rough texture of the adobe that we see in very old colonial homes inside the country or in churches like the “Santa Capilla” in Caracas, textures are also provided by coatings such as tablet that mimics the texture of brick, and various stones and colored tiles that can be found in the wall of the covered square from UCV and in many other buildings from Venezuela.



ACOUSTIC

In general one could say that the acoustics in Venezuela is somewhat chaotic, due to the immense noise of cars crammed the streets, roads, avenues and highways of Venezuelan cities, the great mass of people laughing, shouting, singing and speaking the streets, horns, sound equipment, in order for the overpopulation of cities. However, there are buildings like the auditorium of the UCV and the “Teresa Carreño” Theatre, and many other theaters, auditoriums and country acoustic shells that have been designed with special attention on the expansion of sound, the reverberation time, echo, and all the details that make a place has good acoustics.



RHYTHM

Rhythm in Caracas can be seen everywhere. Thanks to repetition of the same size items such as windows, beams, columns, and even advertising can be seen in some buildings. For example, in HP tower from Chacao can be seen the rate given by the series of beams connecting the flow module with the rest of the building. In the Flower of Fruto Vivas, in Barquisimeto can be seen in the repetition rate of the leaves that serve as ceiling and all the repetitive structure of the base, also in the chapel of the cemetery is in Caracas is observed in the 16 columns supporting the roof whit tensors. 

VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL CIRCULATION

As for the horizontal circulation one of the best examples I can give is “Los Próceres” walk that is used by many athletes to walk, jog, or ride a bicycle. Another great example is the contrast and excellent bond between the vertical and horizontal movement get into buildings as Central Park by a wide aisle and long enough unifies the entire complex and distributed to passersby at the stairs and elevator towers.





<span style="color: #e60aad; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">SPACE AND SCALE

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">In terms of scale might note that in our country there is a very manageable level in terms of architecture. If we go to the colonial houses, high ceilings seem to be out of scale, but its rationale is given by the spaciousness and comfort, as they are very fresh and bright. The city buildings are not too high compared to other cities like New York. In Cumana such buildings are not higher than 5 floors in the tallest building in Caracas's Central Park but it introduces people to the scale by all the lower that unifies the entire complex.



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<span style="color: #e60aad; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">CONCLUSION

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Venezuela is a country with a culture very special, full of joy and warmth. And while it is true that there are numerous negative aspects, such as crime, intolerance, crowding its cities and neglect of the streets and public buildings; is a beautiful country, full a wonderful details to offer the world, only must know how to observe and to appreciate what we have.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> This work serves to briefly display these little wonders and try to create awareness among us, students of architecture, what we can do to improve the Venezuelan architecture, which should be taken into account to be in harmony with this wonderful country.