Final+Project

==="Way to the sea" is a project designed by the architect Franklin Loaiza, and it's the winner of a contest organized by The Government of Vargas in Venezuela, this recreational center is aimed to be already built in June 2013 to commemorate the 15th anniversary of this State. The Governor asked twenty architectural firms to design a recreational center for the citizens of Macuto, this site for relaxing and for social life is going to be erected in a field in the coast near "Cultural Center Gabriel Garcia Marquez" and the "House of the wind".===

===This future architectural jewel is a long building, it reminds to the "Farnsworth house" of Mies Van der Rohe because its suspended in the land, what makes feel that it's in the air. The aproximation to the building is through a ramp which starts some meters away and then it begins to make part of the building, first this ramp finds a wall, then it's covered with a roof and suddenly this ramp drives you to the inside when the main cover of the building, wich consists into a corrugated wall suggesting the waves, involves you and makes you keep watching the sea at the end of the tunnel, when the ramp is finished you find a frame made of the same corrugated technique and it seems like if it were the frame of a painting, you have a complete view of the sea and the horizon; it's an extraordinary sensation, you feel like in the middle of the sea because not just all you can see is water, you are also stand up over it, because this piece gets into the sea; there's a separation between this part and the rest of the building, it's an opened rectangle in the floor that lets you see the water, it's sort of a pool but with the water of the sea.===

===The inside area of "Way to the sea" consists into two storey, in the first, when you get inside you find a long corridor and at the end you can find the stairways to the second level, next to them there's a great space from where it can be seen "Cultural Center Gabriel Garcia Marquez" and the "House of the wind", other space in this level is an outdoor hall, where you don't know if you are inside or outside, a wonderful feeling. If you go up to the second level through the great ramp, you will find again the espectacular framed view of the sea, but you have to turn around if you want to to go to a more intimate reunion place, which is very cozy and it has excellent views too.===

===The building stands over two series of colonnade that support all the construction, and both levels are made of reinforced concrete, the cover is also concrete but made with a technique that makes it seem like waves, and it also creates a rythm in the facade. This building is very outdoor that's why it has few walls, it tries to be part of the nature, or tries to let the nature be part of it, let the wind flow, let the sun illuminate and let the sea merge with it.===

===Definitely "Way to the sea" is a great building that deserved to win the contest, it's no doubt a place that is going to change the lifestyle of the people of Vargas, they will find here a shelter where they can enjoy of nature, relax and share with the community. 2013 is not that far, and all the citizens of Vargas are anxiously awaiting for the openning of "Way to the sea".===