Zonas de Caracas

FM-60

Located inside Los Caracas Vacational City, this two-story building built in wood, stone pebbles and concrete, was conceived as a balcony resting on a rock formation 30 meters high jutting at sea, where it dominates the coastline of the Vargas state and Los Caracas. Its formal freedom, reminds the forms of Brazilian modern architecture. Its volume consists of a rectangular body with gentle slopes and a broken roof which connects to a covered circular form supported by concrete frames, and platforms that serve as lookout. Destined to leisure and recreation, the program included a dining room for hundred people, spacious living areas and a spectacular covered terrace open to the sea, where an elevated walkway connecting to a platform of lower dimension from which it follows, dominates the coastal landscape. From there, walkways and stairs descent to lower terraces and to the beach, building a steep walk open to the horizon that blends with the topography. Inside, accurate details in ceilings and walls are filled with six geometric murals by Venezuelan artist Carlos González Bogen (1920-1992). El Mirador, a tourist and architectural event in the fifties, is now abandoned.