Nem directions of caribbean architecture

Abstract

The aim of this paper is part of recognizing the current changes of the Caribbean Dominican architecture focused on the condition of the tropical environment and particularly the definition of inputs to the process of change by the addition of new solutions and traditional materials of the Caribbean. It is important to recognize the changes that are currently suffering the architectural proposals in the two most important aspects: the urban-influenced and permeated by the new recreation of closed complexes. This duality of the architectonic has allowed greater freedom of composition related to the tropical environment of large projects and recreational complexes, for example, Cap Cana and Casa de Campo. The background of these solutions go back to the wooden architecture made in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in the towns and large sugar industries. The prosperity of the su- gar industry product attracted many with solutions adapted to the tropical climate that have served as references to the new current solutions. Are valued equally adaptive solutions of the Modern Movement in the Caribbean, held in the new material of his time, reinforced concrete, with its transparency, drop shadows and sinuosity in the main comparative cases of Santo Domingo, Havana, and Fort de France.