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The Telecommunications building emerges as an ambivalent box that achieves a solid corporate image with a tight technical program for offices and new telecommunications technology that describe its character and image. The work is a single ambivalent box, with smooth clean façades, counting on the power of form in a fragmented urban setting, showing guidelines for the insertion of new buildings, and introducing new urban ordering to the area. Its clear geometric exterior expresses the program’s division in two opposite articulated bodies, contrasting each other, separated by a slot, where a double height space is created. The box adopts a classic order: a base or podium, a central body and a top. The foundation raises the building a half level above the street, articulating the built form with public space, solving the access and lighting of the underground parking and the signaling. The central body, with 4 stories and two basement levels, is organized in two parts, using a cross pattern as generator, on the long side of which the vertical circulation cores are placed toward the east and west façades. The blind body, closed on three sides, supports the technical requirements (telehouse), and the glass facing north and south, houses the office areas protected by aluminum blinds. The designed building received an award in the Caracas Architecture Biennial (2000).
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