Final+Project

= Venezuela Unique =

 These works are still today the subject of study in architecture and urban career, ** **because some cases were the solutions of major problems like housing shortages, other cases are architectures to enrich our people, and finally Anauco house of Anauco **
 * Most of the eight works I selected represent or represented at the time of building a major change at the urban and architectural morphology of the city of Caracas, and since Caracas is the capital of Venezuela, the changes impacted on the rest of** **country.






City of Mérida Central Town. Mérida, Venezuela. //Color //** The merida historic center is comprised of the Merida Cathedral, the museum, the archbishop's palace and the palace of government. For the lighting of the buildings are tall poles installed where the lights were placed, five for the cathedral, one for the museum, two for the palace and thirteen for governor.   For the event, which lasts 15 minutes, created an audio track that combines music, natural sounds, drums, elements that try to emulate a story that relates the development of the town square. Specifically involved in the square two elements: the equestrian figure of the Liberator, which was given a treatment with a projection of complementary colors and two royal palms that change colors as they do analogously to the fireworks.    The color could create a new environment, with the projection of the color red, perceive heat, the blue is cold, and green is nature, so different sensations may be manifest simply by changing color. 
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Central University of Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela. // Light //** <span style="color: #305700; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Set to the permanence of curious passersby. A fuzzy definition square, with the peculiarity of being covered, generating large spaces of shadows that are appreciated in a tropical climate such as Caracas. At the same time, the light enters by strategic locations, such as an entry skylight <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">framing one of many artistic works are on permanent display. <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">The wall draft allows an interesting play of solids and voids where the light enters and takes the smooth floor. <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">The square becomes a walk through the tunnel, with light at the end of the road, flashing, bright and warm, guiding us through our way through those people who decide to sit and cool off between artworks and vegetation.
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<span style="color: #305700; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Arch****itect: Alejandro Borges. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Alto Hatillo Urbanization. Caracas, Venezuela. //Texture// **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Assemblage is defined as a form of sculpture composed of objects arranged so that they generate a single element. It forms an integrated whole. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">The Assemblage House explores the tectonic expression of each material: aluminum, stone, recycled wood,  <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: #ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #305700; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">concrete, etc. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #305700; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">The skin is analyzed as a three-dimensional element are explored different materials to create a variety of textures that are commensurate with the space and its use, creating different sensations. Try to awake the higher sensitivity that can transmit a person to enter the room. <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #305700; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">



**<span style="color: #305700; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Architect: Carlos Raúl Villanueva. Central University of Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela. //Acoustic//**

<span class="long_text"> The Aula Magna of the Central University of Venezuela was designed by architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva, for his masterpiece "university town". In the early 80's was considered one of the best five rooms with the best acoustics in the world. It is a large auditorium on three levels, then that makes it special? The answer to this question are clouds, clouds of Jean Arp also known as flying saucers, the installation was on the roof of the building while a band played on stage, and thus achieve the perfect acoustics. Another feature is the seats, as they are made of wool and absorb sound well when the room is not completely full of people. The concave roof allows unimpeded passage of the sound wave.



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El Silencio Urbanization. Caracas, Venezuela. **// **Rhythm** // <span style="color: #305700; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">El Silencio as we know it today was a redevelopment project of El Silencio neighborhood, by the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva started in 1943 and opened in 1945. It's located in downtown of the city of Caracas. It’is considered a social, because was the replacement of a huge monument to the Liberator Simón Bolívar never built, resulting from the project never made for the bolivar avenue known as the "Plan Rotival”. <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
 * <span style="color: #305700; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Architect: Carlos Raúl Villanueva.

It‘s a housing, consisting of seven blocks mostly encloses a courtyard that was for use of the habitants of the building. But this new urbanization have a peculiarity that give to the city of Caracas great importance in 1945 and is the gallery that have every building on the ground floor, which communicate simultaneously with the urban context, are the pillars that are repeated in succession one after another and form a virtual plane that protects pedestrians from the weather, and also can travel through the windows of local stores. This point was completely new to Venezuela, since it would mean the first draft of something like an outdoor mall.

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Caracas, Venezuela. //<span style="color: #305700; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Vertical Circulation //** <span style="color: #305700; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> The Museum of Fine Arts was designed by architect Carlos Raul Villanueva in the first half of the 70's and opened in 1976, originally it was planned as an annex to the neoclassical museum (now the National Art Gallery) also designed by Villanueva in 1937. The set consists of the original neoclassical building and the vertical element is the new wing of modern architecture in direct relation with nature. The complex includes the landscaping of the park's Caobos. The vertical member has a vertical movement fascinating ramps-stairs leading to each floor of the building through a dark corridor with natural light at each end, can make an analogy with the expression "walking through a tunnel", a tunnel that leads to a new plant full of artistic surprises that we find in the exhibition halls on upper floors.
 * <span style="color: #305700; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Architect: Carlos Raúl Villanueva

The magnitude of movement is limited by a courtyard with a skylight entry that shines a little on the side of the stairs, a very interesting view from the ground floor gives the impression of a stairway leading to heaven.



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<span class="long_text">Anauco house it's the perfect example of horizontal circulation, as the house develops around a central courtyard that refreshes each of the spaces of the house. Each space is connected by an internal passageway that runs through the house completely interrelated each of the spaces. Also present stratification by district: receipt of the visit (areas near the entrance), development (the courtyard where they develop social activities) and the outcome (is represented by the areas near the exit). Inside the house also occurs a sequence of spaces from the most public to private (starting from living rooms to bedrooms).
 * <span style="color: #305700; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">San Benardino Urbanization. Caracas, Venezuela. //<span style="color: #305700; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Horizontal Circulation //**



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23 January Urbanization, Caracas, Venezuela. //<span style="color: #305700; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Space and Scale. //** <span class="long_text"> 23 January urbanization, originally known as 2 December urbanization, was the project of the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva during his work at the "Banco Obrero". This urbanization is the multifamily housing project designed for the city workers who join the garden city and eradicate "ranchos" that began to multiply rapidly. It is located in a territory from the Calvario Park and Caño Amarillo to Las Flores de Catia, consists of 52 prisms mostly fifteen floors. Were one of the most important architectural accomplishments of Caracas. Large blocks of flats with landscaping and complementary services, the purpose was to ensure a hygienic city, economic, aesthetic and functional. They placed the buildings were oriented to the sun and natural ventilation.
 * <span style="color: #305700; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Architect: Carlos Raúl Villanueva

The set of blocks not present monotony, despite being regular as it has very different views on the urban landscape, differences in height between the blocks and a variety of colors that make large collages on their facades.

Large blocks of flats (El Paraiso, Rafael Urdaneta, 2 December, and others) gave a monumental scale to the working class present in the city of Caracas, and considered a very important factor in the development of architecture in Caracas.

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 * In my opinion Venezuela is unique in architecture and urbanism, has a great diversity of architectural types, from primitive dwellings located in the Amazon to the buildings with the best technology located in Caracas. Therefore, no good or bad architecture, if not a series of good and bad aspects to the new generation of architects and urban planners to integrate their designs, and thus to reconsider a new visual for Venezuela.**

Churuatas. Amazonas. Building Mayor of Baruta. Franco Miccuci

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