The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is a country full of contrasts, its ethnic composition is mixed in most (67%), but also has white population (21%), blacks (10%) and Indians (2%), Venezuela also stores almost any natural resource and also has economic potential (GDP U.S. $ 180.4 billion for 2008, 41% in industry) to develop almost any raw material, such as agriculture, ranching, mining, tourism, among others. This potential is affected by their own inhabitants, who, living in abundance historically, especially since the discovery of oil fields at the beginning of S. XX, have not bothered to solve their own problems, and currently, the country is in economic crisis, political (the most discussed Latin America) and more importantly, socially. In Sinamaica everything moves, that's the first impression one has to get there. The primary factor that causes this phenomenon is the presence of water, but beyond that, there are a number of details that make almost unrecognizable experience of being there.Sinamaica Lagoon is populated by the indigenous group Añúu, which are a population of about 3500 inhabitants distributed in 500 households in 12 sectors, which are holders of an ancient culture of spiritual connection with the environment they inhabit, "From water and water we go. " Throughout the centuries have remained faithful to their customs, using resources of the area to make their homes and organize socially, among others. However, in recent years globalization has transformed the livelihoods of people in different ways. The water of the lagoon, which the Añúu used to their daily lives, is contaminated due to various activities such as smuggling of gasoline, etc.. The fishing activity of vital importance, has suffered greatly and its people are most affected.The tree of the most iconically recognized by the population, is the mangrove. With this the Añúu get various types of benefits, craft, construction, help regenerate the local fauna, among other qualities.Mangrove Building, offers a space where the community can attend and enjoy various activities offered by the building. Being located in a strategic point east of the lake, people can easily access it and have access to a variety of programs ranging from library / cinema for 32 people, Classroom readings for a minimum of 12 guests, Public, Commercial, Cafetín, Services and also at night has the quality to be a landmark reference that generates a new centrality in the lagoon.In the construction of the building may involve the population, and used readily available materials and also reuse solid waste in the area, such as plastic bottles, waste of abandoned buildings, among others. In the north and south facades the building is flanked by gabion walls containing plastic bottles, which filter the light and in turn structural support function of the building, and contain lights that turn low-performing night.Among other things, books, valuable as it contains the building, form an enclosure of the building itself also function as regulators of light and are located on the ground floor.The building, beyond being a piece of architecture, is idealized as a pocket Cultural Park, which also consists of a rotating system of books, in which every certain amount of time, renewing library materials to ensure the continuing influx people and thus bring about a change in the thinking of the people of Laguna Sinamaica.
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