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Venezuela is unique

In this video I’ll show you few structures that makes unique this city, Caracas, for that I go to expose few buildings or places that are common in our lives but in their design lives some aspects that maybe we don’t see when we look those architectural pieces. The aspects that we go to analyze in the buildings or places are: the color, the rhythm, the light, the acoustic, the texture, the vertical and horizontal circulation and finally the spaces and scale.

Let’s go to start with the Hotel “Caracas Palace” an elegant and imposing building located on the Luis Roche Avenue, that combines just two neutral colors, the black and with, the colors of the abstract expressionism. So using a modern design with the simple and conservative combination was achieved this beautiful icon of Caracas. Also, this building is very attractive and so recordable, because in their design we can see the repletion of the lines, in this case the alternation between the black and white, using the black lines for the windows of the Hotel, that also are equal in all the structure, doing that this building be unique and different from all the structures that are surrounding him.

Following with other concept very important in the design of the structures, we have the light. So for show you the importance of this, exist a new square in Chacao, specifically in “Los Palos Grandes” located in the center of a residential area that using the natural light was created a place that offer to the community a lot benefits in a free and open space. Also this square function like a place for do concerts, is for that reason that ahs one structure designed for give light in the night and give light to the square in general.

Other concept important in the architecture is the acoustic, so in Caracas we found “El Ateneo de Caracas” founded in 1931 and recognized for the amazing acoustic of their halls. One example of this, is the Anna Julia Rojas hall that counts with a lobby for the public before the function, this has a panoramic window that keep the visual contact and isolate the sound and the outside temperature, equally the height of the roof that isolate the noise. All these elements were thought for separate the outside and the inside of the theater, preparing to the public and freeing of the noise and the city pressure.

As the last structure to analyze we found in Caracas the Humboldt Hotel and the cable car Caracas-Ávila, started under the Marcos Perez Jimenez government. These elements work together because their plan includes an horizontal path till the Hotel when the visitors have a vertical circulation. The horizontal path is very attractive because give the possibility to see the sea and the city too, for be located in this point of the mountain. Also here you can find place to eat or just to stay and enjoy the climate. So using the human scale when the visitors arrived at the Hotel the vertical circulation begins to appear in this cylindrical volume with 19 floors now out of services for restoration. But maintaining the horizontal circulation in the first floor offering different spaces using few textures for create sensation in the visitor.

media type="youtube" key="T_fPzCyQBGE" width="425" height="350" I think that this project is very good for the student because permit analyze the concepts that we have been learning in this course but in the reality, so we can see how the things can be connected and form the structures that we that exist and we see every day but don’t pay a lot attention to the details.