Article source: Jorge Andrade Benítez, Javier Mera Luna and Daniel Moreno Flores

This Project starts with the acknowledgment of a conceptual challenge which structures the idea that generates the proposal: Which characteristics could an overlook have to be attractive even when all its natural surroundings offer interesting (and similar) views? This is due to the fact that the project is located in the top edge of the crater of an active volcano that has a lake inside of it, which creates multiple viewing opportunities along its surroundings.

Image Courtesy © Lorena Darquea

• Architects: Jorge Andrade Benítez, Javier Mera Luna and Daniel Moreno Flores
• Project: Footpaths and Overlook in the Quilotoa Lake – Shalalá
• Location: Ecuador, Cotopaxi, Zumbahua, Quilotoa, Shalalá
• Photography: Lorena Darquea, Pablo Puente, Javier Mera, Daniel Moreno Flores, Cynthia Macias Leiva, Santiago del Hierro
• Design and construction dates: Design: 2012, Construction 2012-2013
• Collaborators: Manuel Galárraga, María Paz Villagomez, Diana Callejas, Christian Rea, Natalia Dueñas, Juan Carlos Cisneros
• Sponsor: Ministry of Tourism of Ecuador
• Ministry of Tourism Coordinators: Javier Imaicela / Fernando Nieto
• Owners of the Project: Shalalá Comunity

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