Final+Project

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Hello, my name is Ariana Esteller, I’m an architecture student of the Simon Bolivar University. This is my final project of my English 3 course. I have recollected for this work some important pieces of the Venezuelan architecture to indentify the elements I have studied the whole trimester, which are: color, light, texture, rhythm, vertical and horizontal circulation, space and scale. Each one represented by a specific example.
 * Introduction **

**COLOR **


the use of colors plays an important role in architecture, as the first impression of a building is the color composition of its facade. The compositional use of primary colors is encouraging and highlights the building, creating an interest and an emotional response from the viewer. The colors of the building reflects the architect's intentions regarding its relationship with the environment, form, context, structural elements such as the crosses of St. Andrew, in this case and highlighted in yellow and identified by color seeks to identity relations of space and distance, highlighting the parapets of the corridors and terraces with red marking clearly showing the horizontal connection throughout the project. The color breaks every impression of monotony. The colors used in the work are the primary colors, mostly used on small surfaces and harmonized with the color white. Blue is used as an element of greater surface not as much as white but it represents larger-scale parts that hold the large overhangs of the project. What makes this building a representative of the Venezuelan architecture is the reinterpretation that makes Fruto Vivas of the colonial house, the image of colorful architecture, which is why the colors of the project, as well as the compositionally formation of a central “patio” for recreation and enjoyment of the inhabitants of the building. **LIGHT ** **Plaza Cubierta de la Universidad Central de Venezuela by Raul Villanueva**
 * Árbol para vivir by Fruto Vivas In Puerto la Cruz iyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan **

The covered plaza where the architecture of space highlight sthe art within herby the interplay of light and shade produced by the gaps inthe roofs and pierced walls . Is the best example to discuss the proper use of natural light in architecture of the tropics like Venezuela,besides being an excellent social space  for a university and <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> the city of <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Caracas. <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The roof deck,although fragmented <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">, ensures <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">the continuity of the project,with loose laps where the different structural patterns meet <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">; it <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">changes in height and joins with the different buildings.In the covered plaza these breakslet ligh trays become players in the space,which complementand reduce the strength of the lightside of the yard.The art works are accented with natural light from the openings in therooff raming them <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">. <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In eachhall <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">, auditorium, <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">cafeteria <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">, library, <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">or findroad <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">, Villanueva <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">experiments with skylights,wovenwalls <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">, gardens and <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">courtyards create a set of lights that enhance their spaces.

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">TEXTURE **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">Texture is <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">a visual element that can also be appreciated through the sense of touch,using both senses at once or only visually. <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">In architecture,building material shave multiple textures <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">, in addition to <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">the technical means to create fromthe qualities ofeach of these materials such as stone <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">, marble, glass, concrete, polished metals, etc. <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">Given the availability of materials in the environment,architecture reconciles different reasons to use one material or another,in most cases the homes of bahareque occur inlow-income families <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">, <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">who build their own houses with materials of the place and that is why they use bahareque <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">, which is a <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">low-budget material that acts as cement in the construction and a mixture of mudand straw,the final result <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">, <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">also generates a very particular natural texture that is perceived when seen up close.On the other hand, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;"> when seen <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;"> farther from the building <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">, the texture <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">generated by the bamboo interleaved with the clay <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;"> generates <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">a horizontal texture <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Venezuelan traditional house made of bahareque **

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">RHYTHM **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;">Rhythm gives movement to the architectural volumes and is therefore is an essential part that describes the architectural beauty on the basis of the proportion, size and overall harmony of the parts that make up the building. In architecture, the rhythm is often given by the repetition of architectural elements from windows, columns, parasols, to simple floor textures or façade elements that generate rhythm and give identity to the project. The reason I chose the "barrios" to illustrate rhythm in the Venezuelan architecture is because they represent the type of city that gives identity to the city of Caracas. The rhythm is identified in the "barrios" varies from where you look, as seen from the front is perceived as the sum of elements arranged arbitrarily, without any order or structure it starts generating a disordered rhythm on the edges of the city of Caracas, becoming somewhat overwhelming, while an aerial view of the "barrio" is evidenced as the rhythm generated by the housing is determined by the levels of the mountain and is really a fluid rhythm of the volumes reconstructing the shape and form of the mountain. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL CIRCULATION **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Barrios - caracas **

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Torres de Parque Central / Casa Colonial ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In architecture <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">the way we move around the building is a fundamental element of design <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">, it’s <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">essential to develop a project and in some cases the main element <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> that governs the <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">spatial richness of the building. <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Central park towers represent the tallest concrete buildings in Caracas and one of the most emblematic. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> B <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">eyond being a land mark for the city <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">, its character as <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">tall <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> and <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">slender makes it clear that there is a vertical circulation <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> with <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">in them. The horizontal movementis represented in the colonial homes with long corridors leading to the courtyards and distributed to all the house.They are a clear example of horizontal circulation <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> that can be <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">experienced along the building while discovering each space. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">SPACE AND SCALE **

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">Caracas //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Polyhedron Arena <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">In architectural spaces the human scale is defined by the dimensions and proportions of the human body. The proportion of a building in relationship with a person is determined by the dimensions of the space and scale and how the architect wants the user to perceive this relationship between the constructive elements, the forms and the space left in between which the user occupies. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%;">In Caracas Polyhedron Arena, the external architectural image reflects the character of a monumental space, which is beyond the human scale, but inside, the small elements that complement the space like the stairs, the handrails, the seats, etc, is what gives the internal space the human element and can be comfortably used despite its monumental dimensions. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Venezuelan architecture have more than one example or the perfect use of every concept we studied in this course, because Venezuelan architects have work on the Venezuelan materials like bahareque, they have studied the light from the tropic and they have made reinterpretations of our historical architecture like the colonial houses, etc. That’s why we have particular and unique architecture styles.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Conclusion **