ARQUISIMETO USEUM

HOSPITAL LA CARIDAD DESCRIPTION ( 2 OF 2 )

The chapel is a reelaboration of the renaissance model and reminds of hospital projects as the one performed by the military engineer Marmion for Caracas in 1798, with a similar structure in the center. The symmetry of the design was careful, as in those times of the colony, to maintain separated men from women. Material and techniques selected for the building are of a clear colonial heritage. There is plenty of masonry in the vertical boundaries, with exception of the pavilions which are wooden structures covered with tiles.

It guaranteed more acceptable hygienic conditions than the ones offered by the clay structures, commonly used in the region. The buildings facade is of a neoclassical style but the ornaments where chosen freely. Even when no element presents emphasizing characteristics the effect of the whole in the urban context has been significant since the opening of the building because of its solidity and austerity as an old tree which still blossoms.

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