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  media type="youtube" key="Xj6TUpqciQ4?hl=en" height="412" width="509" align="center" **Color **



In Venezuela, the influence of color in architecture has been present since the times of the colony, where the facades of the houses used to be very colorful, creating very interesting contrasts. To achieve these contrasts in the facades, they used many different colors in the walls, doors, windows and ornaments. It is very important to say that these colonial houses and facades remain in certain parts of the city, despite the evolution and transformation of the country.

**LIGHT **

}The lighting in the different environments of a house or in open spaces of the city gives us the sensation of safety and comfort, especially when natural light disappears at night time. Just like the lighting inside the houses, which allows different activities to take place and manages to create interesting effects that embellish a certain room, we can also find this in a city. This means that we can embellish a certain public space of a city by using artificial lighting. This happened in Venezuela four years ago. As a main part of the project “Saneamiento del río Guaire” a new system of lighting was established in three main areas: “Paseo Colón”, “Las Mercedes” and “La California Sur”. The main objective was to provide the citizens the opportunity of rediscovering this river as an important part of Caracas. And this was achieved, since many people took pictures in the illuminated parts of the river and had a different experience in an ignored part of Caracas.



**TEXTURE **

In urban planning is very easy to find real texture, especially in streets and avenues, in the intersections between vehicles and pedestrians. Also, texture is used to distinguish spaces. This happens in the boulevard of Sabana Grande and the main avenue in Las Mercedes, right next to the Alfredo Sadel square. These avenues have different textures from the common streets, since they have a different use and environment. Both of these avenues have a commercial use, so the pedestrian should have a more important role than the vehicle. The texture in these avenues is accomplished by using “adoquines”, which tries to generate a continuous sidewalk, so the pedestrian can walk without any effort and that way vehicles realize that they are in a pedestrian area.



**ACOUSTICS **

Luckily, in Venezuela we can find the best architectural example of acoustics, the “Aula Magna de la Universidad Central de Venezuela”. The architect, Villanueva, conceived the Aula Magna as a reunion area for artists and intellectuals. For this reason, he made sure that his design could proportionate an adequate atmosphere to the performers and the audience. This building is considered the best acoustic design in Latin America and it is one of the best in the whole world. Besides the Aula Magna, we also have smaller examples such as: La Concha Acústica de Bello Monte and La Concha acústica del Parque del Este.

 **RHYTHM **

In these last years, a new way of urban development has been formed. It is called “vivienda tipo”; this means that each sector has the same amount of buildings with the same amount of floors and the same type of façade. These urbanizations maintain a uniform rhythm, since the same type of housing is repeated in regular intervals.

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The best example of horizontal and vertical circulation in Venezuela is Central Park, and more specific, the twin towers of Central Park, which are 225 meters high and have a total of 56 floors. These towers bear the title of the tallest towers of South America and the second highest in Latin America. These towers have a complex system of elevators and escalators and also have many corridors in which the different parts of the tower connect to each other.

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