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My name is Marieclaire Monasterio and The purpose of this project is to show you some important elements used in architecture and how they are present in Venezuelan architecture and how this elements make it unique. These elements are color, light, texture, acoustics, rhythm, circulation system, space and scale. **COLOR:** The color represents much more than just an appearance, since we are little we always used the color to express feelings, emotions, and so on. In architecture is the same the color can be a useful element to create a feeling or an experience. Venezuela is a very colorful country in general, this is a good and a bad thing because color brings joy but if there is no order in the colors or is to scandalous can produce a bad feeling for the people who see it. The good examples of the use of color in architecture in Venezuela is the murals in UCV like the ones in plaza cubierta. A bad example, is the color used of no housing planned that are in the boarder of the highway, there is no order or match between those colors and it doesn’t highlight anything. **LIGHT:** The lighting is one of the most important element in the living spaces, it helps you to performance tasked more easy and also make you feel comfortable and save. Besides lighting can be used to focus the attention to some important point of the building. In Venezuela we have examples of the good use of light in architecture. The Anglo-ven building in bello monte is one the examples of how light can changes completely a building giving it a totally different look, plaza cubierta in the UCV is another examples of how the light highlights important elements because if it doesn´t filter by the space between the sealing of plaza cubierta and aula magna we wouldn’t feel that the structure is floating. UCV

**TEXTURE**: the most important thing of texture is that it can divide spaces, giving them an interesting touch if you use the right texture maybe in some wall or in the furniture you´re using in. Also texture give you Scale, it can accentuate a plane or also can reduce the scale of a wall by increasing the visual weight of it. The black cube in caracas has a particular texture that makes him the focuses of the attention in the context where he is situated, it is covered by black ceramic which give him a shine that the other buildings around it doesn’t have, also the black color is really strong and it gives the feeling of power. The no housing planned in caracas is another part of the city where the use of different texture is present but in this case it doesn´t focused anything good because all this textures disturb the vision bothering the eye.

**ACOUSTICS**: As much as architecture can be considered an art, it has to take into account the fact that the design of buildings needs to include the design of a space with a great acoustic that gives you a great atmosphere while you’re there. Some great example of buildings with good acoustics is the Aula Magna of the UCV this is a moving space that give you such of great feelings when you are there, the acoustic here is awesome the panels on the sealing keep the sound in the room, the teatro municipal is another great example of the good use of architecture in order to create a space with an amazing acoustic.

**RHYTHM:** the rhythm is an element really useful in architecture; it helps to reforced a shape and a concept. For example if you want to design a horizontal building the rhythm can help you improve the design because with the use of a pattern of columns or windows you can create a rhythm that will help you to focused the attention in the shape. In the case of facultad de humanidades in UCV we can see a pattern of walls repeated that guide the eye to see until the end of the building reforcing the horizontal shape of the one. Other example is the Corpbanca Tower.

**VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL CIRCULATION**: a building one of the most important things is the relation between the spaces in the horizontal and vertical direction, that´s why the communication between them has to be flawless. For this communications we can use a lot of different elements such as bridges, stairs, ramps, and elevators, all of these facilitates the transportation between spaces. In the FAU building at UCV the experience of using the stairs is something great, Villanueva combines the use of lighting in order to create a vertical circulation that is a totally experience. Again in the ranchos in caracas we can see the use of vertical circulation, the famous stairs that connect the different houses in the mountain, there is an exception in one the barrios in caracas that is the metrocable, this is a solution made by the government to the habitants of San Agustin, this is another way to get into the mountain that its not by the stair.

**SPACE AND SCALE:**the space and scale in architecture is really important, a good architect has to know how to worked with them. The scale aloud to compare and contrast the size of the spaces in a edification, there is no pattern of scale, the architect choose the one that will benefit the project. The space is the most important element in architecture, in fact we have the responsibility to create great spaces that have the capacity to move feelings and create experiences. One of the greatest spaces in Venezuela is La Villa Planchart located in lomas de san roman, this is one of the master piece of Gio Ponti, this house combine the space and scale in a perfectly way, the experience of being there is just unforgettable, he put the entire house floating in the mountain, beside the used of the diferent scale and the highs of the seeling makes this project one of my favorite ones.

Finally we can see that venezuela is a diverse country in architectural elements, it has a little bit of everything that’s why this is such a unique country.

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