Final_Proyect

**LINK OF THE VIDEO: []** media type="youtube" key="VbPkn1PJfDI?version=3" height="315" width="420" **INTRODUCTION** **Hi my name is Adriana Mosquera and a I want to explain What makes Venezuela unique from urban planning perspective?** **Venezuela is a marvelous country. It is very rich and unique thanks to its natural landscapes, its people, and its traditions. Color, lights, texture, acoustics, rhythm, vertical & horizontal circulation, and space & scale are many of the things that make our urban landscapes unique.** **COLOR** **The first example for this presentation is El Hatillo. If you look these neighborhoods, you can see the importance of colors in the area. The color can give a building an identity by making a unique place to visit**     **LIGHT** **Maracay is located in the north of Venezuela. It is a green city with many trees and plants. At night, the lighting of this City can be compared with the lighting of Caracas City. It is amazing.**   **TEXTURE** **Sabana Grande Boulevard is a good example for the texture in urban planning, we can see the texture of the floor. The pedestrian walkway has a different texture to the street, this is to separate the pedestrian zone to the vehicular zone. Also, the texture is used for separate different areas, like private and public zone.** <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">**ACOUSTICS** <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">**In Maracay, Venezuela, there is a mall call "Paseo Las Delicias" There are 6 discos, and around it there are many residences. Neighbors always complain about the noises. The solution to that is to decrease the strengh of the sound by covering the walls of locals or clubs with sound insulating material.** <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">**RHYTHM** <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">**Caracas, the high buildings predominate near the main streets, and in the remote parts buildings start to decrease their height. Also, the grids and blocks of streets form part of the rhythm, giving it symmetry. Nevertheless, in some areas you can see a loss of symmetry respect to the height, because it is mixed with high-rise and low buildings or houses.** <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">**HORIZONTAL CIRCULATION** <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">**For the horizontal Circulation, the Sabana Grande Boulevard is a perfect example. It is located in El Recreo, Municipality Libertador. It's wide streets pedestrian allow circulation of large number of people in a comfortable way, with shops on ground floor, it's makes the journey takes more dynamic. It is estimated that every day more than 100 thousand people pass through this area.**

<span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">**VERTICAL CIRCULATION** <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">**With respect to the vertical movement, It is the cable car of Caracas or cable car of Warairarepano. This is a travel that connects the city of Caracas with the Avila National Park. It features over 70 booths that make the journey of 3.5 miles in 15 minutes depending on weather conditions. It's a fun family experience that showcases the beauty of nature.**

<span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">**SCALE** <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">**This picture focuses mainly on a contrast of spaces and scales. In one half of the picture we can see the famous slums that surround Caracas. There are almost no spaces and the scale is more suited for pedestrians, with a main road to connect all the houses to the city. In contrast, in the other half, we can see the tall building with spaces and parking lots, a big highway and streets to connect them with an scale more suited to the car.** <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">**CONCLUSION** <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">**Venezuela can be considered as unique from an urban planning perspective, so we've seen. In all aspects (color, light, texture, sound and rhythm, circulation, space and scale) Venezuela has appropriate space for the population. Although not a very organized country but, it is able to comply to 100% the needs of Venezuelans.** <span style="display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">**This project was very interesting because I learned about my country and broaden my vocabulary. I am very happy with the result.**