Architecture in Caracas is presented in a variety of forms, we can see a lot of housing with similar characteristics and between them or near by an exuberant building almost like a mounster that overshadowed everything. Well, in the mayority of the cases those "mounsters" have a lot of glass on their facades (the Cubo Negro, Four Seasons Hotel, the towers of Parque Central, for examples) and on the inside of each one of them, because they're big closed buildings, it needs to be a big air conditioning and ventilation system that can suply all the structure. In Caracas, for residential settlements, glass is normally used for windows, doors and a couple of details to make the building prettier. Now, on indoor the building it's used for decoration and some furnitures, we don't have that level of development yet to put an entire structure of glass and personaly I think we don't have to.
Most of the glass buildings are for business, but like I said before glass is only used as facade and in some cases like a shell. These buildings are not meant for this tropical climate and as glass is not a cooler material on the inside without the apropiate ventilation or air conditioning system it can be a real hell. This happens when architects grabs project ideas from other country with a diferent enviroment and a diferent climate, and try to put it here...
Architecture in Caracas is presented in a variety of forms, we can see a lot of housing with similar characteristics and between them or near by an exuberant building almost like a mounster that overshadowed everything. Well, in the mayority of the cases those "mounsters" have a lot of glass on their facades (the Cubo Negro, Four Seasons Hotel, the towers of Parque Central, for examples) and on the inside of each one of them, because they're big closed buildings, it needs to be a big air conditioning and ventilation system that can suply all the structure. In Caracas, for residential settlements, glass is normally used for windows, doors and a couple of details to make the building prettier. Now, on indoor the building it's used for decoration and some furnitures, we don't have that level of development yet to put an entire structure of glass and personaly I think we don't have to.
Most of the glass buildings are for business, but like I said before glass is only used as facade and in some cases like a shell. These buildings are not meant for this tropical climate and as glass is not a cooler material on the inside without the apropiate ventilation or air conditioning system it can be a real hell. This happens when architects grabs project ideas from other country with a diferent enviroment and a diferent climate, and try to put it here...