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In 1975 José Antonio Abreu founded Social Action for Music, and years later created the National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras (FESNOJIV), in which almost 350,000 people are involved today. The 18,000 square meter building is intended to integrate the orchestra’s academic activity with other artistic disciplines and to promote national and universal artistic musical heritage. The volume consists of a north tower, near Amador Bendayan Boulevard, where the academic part of the System functions; and the body of halls, to the south, toward Los Caobos Park. The eleven-story north body has parking, offices, classrooms and rehearsal rooms; the south body includes the grand Simón Bolívar Hall with four balconies and a capacity for 1200 people; the Fedora Alemán Hall, the amphitheater and the Acoustic Shell open toward Los Caobos Park. Its conventional framed structure of reinforced concrete and mínimum cross-section columns, has spaces with acoustic flexibility to accommodate different musical genres. The floor on the ground level is a mosaic by Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923), which leads to the work Large yellow virtual by Jesús Soto (1923-2005). The kinetic chairs of the grand hall and the amphitheater are covered with the work by Carlos Cruz-Diez.
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