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**COLOR** Carabobo Street is an example of colonial architecture in the heart of Maracaibo. One of the things most striking is the colorful houses with bright colors and tropical. This choice of strong colors is used to protect against the sun and bring joy to its inhabitants. Blue contrasts with the reds and yellows.

**LIGHT ** In the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning of the UCV, light plays a very important roll in the design of the building. Use natural light supplemented with artificial lighting. To the north wing opens full visual facade of the mountain and gives off in a solar gesture of protection an expressive skin brie-soleil, and south, a pierced wall serves as protection the intense tropical light. **A ****COUSTICS **  T he Aula Magna of the UCV is consider among one of five rooms with the best acoustics in the world. Combining technology and art with the Flying Saucers or Floating Clouds designed by Alexander Calder, reflective sound panels, wood from veneer on a steel frame and suspended above the false ceiling plaster. Not only gives dynamism and color to the room, but also an impeccable acoustics.



**CIRCULATION** The circulation on campus is mostly horizontal, because connects diverse structures of the university but we can also distinguish that that connection in some points presents itself with the use of a ramp or stairs. Circulation in the buildings is vertical, generated by stairs, and horizontal, through corridors.

**SCALE ** The Cover Square of the UCV, doesn’t have a uniform scale; it’s plays with different high and relates diverse buildings so it is in constant change. But they all relate with humans. There isn’t any place where people feel uncomfortable.