Aperture projects not available to Finder - way to match Finder to Project structure?

Just transitioning from the dark side (PC) ... and don't fully understand this relationship.  I have all images organized in projects and want to have same folder structure in Finder.  Way to get there from here?

No, there is not.
Aperture is an image-manager.  Finder is a file manager.  Images are not files.  Image containers are not file containers.
This is an important -- and difficult -- hurdle for users to clear in order to make the most of Aperture.
Read my short intro to Aperture.  It describes a little bit of this difference.
You have files made by your camera.  You import them into Aperture.  Aperture stores these files where you tell it to (or in the Library by default).  It never alters them (unless you tell it to).  And it creates an Image.  You develop your Images (make adjustments, in Aperture-speak), you add metadata, you create whatever organizational structures you want (Aperture excels at this) ... and then, when you need a _file_ to share with another person or to use in another program, you export your Image(s).  Export means "Make me image-format files from these selected Images".  And then you have files that show in your file manager, which in OS X is the Finder.
Between import and export, you don't have to worry about file management at all -- except to make sure you backup your Aperture Library and any Originals (the name Aperture gives to the file you import after you import them) that are stored outside your Library (Aperture calls these "Referenced Originals").
HTH.
--Kirby.

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