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IN THIS PAGE I WILL TALK ABOUT THE CONTENT OF THE COURSE AND WILL RELATIONED WITH SOME BUILDINGS OF CARACAS CITY TO SHOW HOW THESE CONCEPTS LIKE COLOR, SPACE AND SCALE, TEXTURE, RHYTHM, VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL CIRCULATION, LIGHT AND ACOUSTIC, MAKES TO VENEZUELA UNIQUE IN ARCHITECTURE.

IN THE VIDEO BELOW YOU CAN SEE THE COMPARATION AND THE RELATION WITH THIS CONCEPTS OF SOME IMPORTANTS BUILIDINGS OF CARACAS.

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WITH THIS WORK, WE CAN SEE THAT CARACAS ITS A CITY WITH A LOTS OF BUILDINGS THAT CAN BE A EXAMPLE OF ALL THE CONCEPTS THAT WE LEARN IN ENGLISH FOR ARCHITECTURE OR URBAN PLANNING AT THE SIMON BOLIVAR UNIVERSITY IN CARACAS.

THIS COURSE GIVE US A SKILL FOR HAVE A OPINION AND COMPARE CONCEPTS WITH THE REALITY OF EVERY DAY.

THE FOLLOWING IMAGES EXPRESS THIS SPACES THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.

__COLOR:__

In this picture we see the “Barrio de Petare”, this is a built-up area in a mountain in which are some many houses with different colors, and this set of houses makes the form of the mountain and reflects the different of the colors. It looks like a scale model of a birth. In the day when we look at this we see the contrast between the colors that appear a game of textures, but in the night we almost can’t see the houses and instead of that, we see the black color with this little points of lights that appears in every place, this is a sad reality of people who lives in worse conditions but ironically in the night the seen to be a spectacular place all round of light like a points of stars.

__LIGHT:__

This are the environs of the aula magna of the Central University of Venezuela, in this and much other places of the university we can appreciate how the buildings are design taking care of the effects of light and shades, the architect take in count too much of the sense that offers the quality of the space tha he design. The wall has being done with opening so the light and the shade can cross the wall and reflect on the floor where the people walk, so the person who cross the corridor can appreciate the game of this light and the value of this places, given so kind of celestial sense and the desire of cross this corridor that appears in all the university.

__TEXTURE:__



The botanic garden it’s located in the Central University of Venezuela, it has an extension of 70 hectares and counts with the most variety of species of flora in Venezuela with constructions for cross this extension.

Located in this place, we can appreciate the different kinds of texture that offer us the plants and the texture of the corridor, and all that surround us.

We can also see the different textures that give us the nature, in the back side come the view of the Avila Mountain that refers of the natural environment and the vegetal mass, then we can see other texture that can be the trees of the Botanic Garden which give us other way to see the nature, more domestic and touchable; and in other view we can see the texture of the different kind of flower and flora that have the botanic garden with the different colors, smells, textures, brightness, etc.

__RHYTHM:__



In this picture we can see the 1000 palms of the ucv, this is a place that give us a marked rhythm, there are 1000 palms around a park put it on a perfect reticule and this turn to green and floor texture. When we order the palms in a perfect reticule we can offer the rhythm; the vegetation acquires and effect of columns that take to us to a determine place. This is an example of a place in Venezuela that refers to the perfect rhythm which helps to order and create important directions and landscape.

__VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL CIRCULATION:__





Viewing the circulation in a big scale, we can take as an example of the vertical circulation the cableway that rises from Caracas city to Avila Mountain; this is a technologic way to arrive from a side at another one. We have to remember that we lives in a place where are a lots of mountains and the way to cross this mountains can be with this cableway there is a vertical circulation in a big scale. Talking about horizontal circulation in a big scale, we can have as an example the highway of Caracas, this is another way to cross on side to another side, and this highway allows us to cross the entire city in less time. That was the examples of vertical and horizontal circulation in a big scale of Caracas that makes unique in the way that we see how cross the city and how get to this places that are so tall and almost unattainable.

__SPACE AND SCALE:__



Caracas is a city with several buildings with a very big architectonical interest, they were designed building by building. Thanks to these things, Caracas looks like a very attractive city by its constructions; Caracas has beautiful theaters, museums, buildings, parks, and much more. Architects only took care about the building when designing and not the environment or another aspect.

However, talking with the point of view of an Urban Planner, the city is completely disorderly may be because when designing all the constructions, named in the past paragraph, designers didn't take care about the landscape, environment, the importance of the construction and other important things.

So we can see that Caracas has a big space of the valley, but this space didn’t have a correct scale, all the buildings are agglutinated and with no order of the space.

__ACOUSTIC:__



The Aula Magna it’s an auditorium of the Central University of Venezuela in which people have concerts, graduations, acts, etc. this auditorium were design by the arquitect Carlos Raul Villanueva in 1953 and is design for lodge 2700 people. This is a construction that counts with the best acoustic system in Venezuela. In the decade of 80’s was catalogue by the 5 of the best rooms of acoustic in the entire world. Today conserve this properties thanks to “Las Nubes Acusticas” by Alexander Calder who make this clouds with an structure beaten to the ceiling to comfort the room of acoustic, this clouds makes a entire design of an example of who the acoustic can achieve and bring us a comfort place.