What Is Your Opinion In Quilotoa Crater Overlook?

Quilotoa Crater Overlook

Working with Mother Nature is very dangerous or i can say that's double edged weapon, you may be great designer or bad guy it's depend on you, But don't forget users will talk about with good words if your design looks amazing.

I am here to take your opinion about the new Quilotoa Crater Overlook design, you can think its bad design like me they turn the beauty nature to ugly place by adding some woods & glass on the top of mountain, who tried to challenge an active volcano? wait & see.

  Deep in the Ecuadorian Andes and some 12,000 feet above sea level, the Quilotoa Crater Overlook teeters over the edge of a collapsed volcano and the stunning Quilotoa Lake. The glass-fronted double platform is made from pre-
weathered teak, designed to compliment and blend into its surroundings, and offers two viewpoints from either the top deck “producing an almost vertigo-like sensation” or the lower stairs, “a space for passive viewing.” A project from the Ecuadorian tourist board, the Quilotoa Crater Overlook supports the indigenous Shalalá community who run the area’s facilities and was designed by architects Javier Mera, Jorge Andrade and Daniel Moreno.

QUI­LO­TOA CRA­TER 

Though the  the Quilotoa Crater and its lake can be viewed from many angles, the belvedere,which is set on the top edge of the caldera, creates an unparalleled viewing experience, thanks to its two-fold use: one may choose to reach the edge of the crater and walk over the cliff on the extending platform, which produces a vertigo-like sensation. At the same time, a space for passive viewing is created below the platform, where the user is protected from the elements and is able to have a lengthy moment of contemplation and introspection.

Overlook in the Quilotoa Lake – Shalalá
Location: Ecuador, Cotopaxi, Zumbahua, Quilotoa, Shalalá
Design: 2012
Construction 2012-2013
Architects: Jorge Andrade Benítez, Javier Mera Luna, Daniel Moreno Flores.
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 Community
Structural Engineer: Guillermo Gómez
Signaling design: Francisco Suárez
Topography: Guatama Martínez
Soil bearing capacity study: Zitroci – Carlos Ortiz
Budget study: Andrés Llanos

Quilotoa Crater Overlook

"The experience of the user is enriched through the creation of a platform extending from the edge of the crater over the cliff looking to give the visitor the opportunity to 'fly' over the landscape, producing an almost vertigo-like sensation," said the architects.

"The discrete but magnificent beauty of the landscape demands the  architectonic response to be austere, in an attempt to merge itself with the surrounding landscape," added the team.