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My name is Lilibeth and now present an analysis on seven points of architecture applied to buildings of Venezuela

__** Color **__ Venezuelan architecture is characterized by the use of a wide variety of colors in buildings, defining the functionality of the building, the site that is located, …, Below show three examples of the use of color in Venezuelan buildings:

Building of the Museum is a structure that presents a colorful mural placed at west facade, this variety of colors are used to say hello to everyone who walks around the square of the rectory in UCV. To maintain the harmony, the architect decided to use one unique color in the leftover of the building.

Museum of Fine Arts is made on a single color in all its extention, this feature may be due to the functionality of the building, because it is a cultural character building, besides wanting to transmit a comfortable environment to contemplate the pieces of art.

Tree to Live made by Fruto Vivas is a structure that presents a variety of colors in all their facades, this feature is reflect of its tittle and the concept that had the architect to construct this building. Fruto Vivas wanted to integrate man with nature and the use of colors can achieve this feeling. Also one of the concepts of the architect was to maximize the happiness of man, so that the use of variety of colors can help creating this.

__** Ligth **__ With this referents can be show some of the different uses that can be given to the light in the buildings, and which are characteristics of the country, because Venezuela is a tropical country so that the buildings can have different areas with different types of illumination, and can create courtyards as seen in this buildings.

MBA shows the use of light in different ways, inside courtyards are roofless surrounded of galleries that create shaded areas for the visitors.

Points of vertical movement, that is to say, where ramps are located occur different light entries;through openwork walls that create a more pleasant journeying which it can be seen outward and also create a soft lighting site, there is also a skylight in the roof which allows to continue the route.

Tree to Live it’s a building that receives natural light trough windows in each room. This work is elevated so, the entrances to the residential are shaded areas, the building also have an outdoor and an indoor garden.

Fruto Vivas had the intention to integrate this work into the nature, but also distinguish it from the area, that’s why he used a variety of colors to paint the facades of building, when light gets inside the facades; it creates a visual impact reflecting light.

__** Texture **__ In this can be seen the use of different materials that are of different textures, as one the most striking facades, for its height, these show the handling of different textures. This is the entrance of museum, there can be observed different textures, being more prominent the striated columns and the upper part of these, but this element is seen at a higher distance than the columns, but this is not a problem, it can be perceived it variety of textures, because this is the place of entry to the museum.

In inner walls of museum can be perceived other types of textures created by different materials, offering sense of softness, and there is also the texture of blocks openwork. __** Rhythm **__ In the Museum of Fine Arts we can see a repetition of shapes, in this case, a repetition of columns in a segment of the facade, as well as the repetition of spaces between those columns. In the MBA shows clearly a closed type of rhythm, the rhythm created by the columns has a clear end at the start of the adjoining walls, which have two differently columns.

In this building the rhythm does not occur only on the facade, there is also this repeat around internal courtyards, and in the same way this rhythm is closed.

__** Circulation **__ The Museum ofFine Arts has horizontal and vertical circulation, but most of the movement is horizontal, as it is a longitudinal character building with a vertical element in which are located most of the galleries.

As circulation elements are elevators and ramps that connect each level of exhibition building. Instead the horizontal circulation happens throughout the building because due to its horizontal condition thus must traverse. This building is a referent that characterized the Venezuelan architecture because since the beginning of the first building were longitudinal and of single level in most and the museum shows two forms of circulation, horizontal in most of the building and vertical only in an area of the building as an aggregate of the current architecture.

__** Scale **__ Inside the Museum of Fine Arts is an example of the different proportions with buildings by function.

We see that the museum has different heights, but all are large scale sets the current Venezuela with colonial Venezuela when constructing buildings simple heights.

To conclude we can say that the Venezuelan architecture is unique and has features that define it more than others, such as the use of light, color and textures.

You can see that the analyzed elements are essential to define the architecture of any place, and also must be said that the advance of these elements is what makes the architecture change over time and differently in each country.

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