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**__ CARACAS ARCHITECTURE __**

The Venezuela architecture is varied, because the diversity of elements used in it. In this we cannot find a rhythmic like in Europe, where the dimension and the distance between windows, or the highest is standard. In our case the buildings did not respond to a pattern design, the construction respond to the intention of architect and the client, and if they try to integrate into context, there is no pattern to follow safe, only construction standards.

Our buildings use different materials that help understand the function for which it was planned, these materials generate feelings created by the different textures and colors. For example, we have the use of bricks, which when used in large format, is in the form of construction, it is used in low income housing known as ranchos, or is used in partition. When brick is used in small format, stands as cladding, and the same is used in constructions of middle class or upper class, and commercial buildings. This change in the size of brick does feel a change in the texture of the material, and color of brick buildings makes it feel heavy. Other materials for office or commercial buildings, they are steel and glass, them are cool and smooth texture, and colors give the feelings of open spaces.

An important element in architecture is the use of light, which is given in the form of buildings, and a great representative of the use of light in Venezuela is the architect Carlos Raul Villanueva, who through the use of lace walls, flat and openings, in their buildings create an entry of natural light, which causes more harmonic spaces.

One of the most important elements to enjoy the architecture is its circulation, which determines how we will travel inside them. The UCV integrate the different types of circulation, it is a creation by the architect Carlos Raul Villanueva, where we have ramps, stairs, elevators, hallways that lead to different spaces. In the next pictures have different examples of circulation in Venezuela.