Connections…
February 02, 2012, 1:59pm Comments
Oscar Falcón Lara
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I'm Oscar, an architect and dreamer. This is a place where I post about architecture research, food, flying, photographic experiments, videos and random life stuff.MY SITES
The first of many sketches for a trio of sculptures I’ve been assigned to create, using steel as a medium.
September 30, 2011, 4:02pm Comments
“The Ancient Visitor”, a pencil drawing. Made while waiting for a pizza.
December 21, 2010, 9:44pm Comments
Geo Residential Tower, Miami: the recent stagnation in luxury apartments in mainland cities in the USA, Panama, Mexico and the Caribbean Islands is contrasted by a steady demand for these types of buildings in coastal areas; three years ago when the market had a positive outlook I drafted a proposal for an energy recycling complex of two towers, one smaller than the other (the tallest being 36 stories, a sketch of which you see above).
Time delays and budget changes kept this project shelved, but I wanted to show that the ideas preceding the design are still valid today and even more so in fact, where energy and access to clean water and storage is an ever growing concern. The core ideals were: A) to have a set of apartments that were powered partially or totally (depending on the season) on wind generated electricity and solar energy (the ‘tips’ on each corner of the upper structure containing wind generators, solar cells and electrical distribution systems); B) to use captured rain water for auxiliary supply and cooling; and C) require minimum maintenance, use long lasting, locally sourced materials (recycled when possible) to comply with LEED Gold standards.
December 05, 2010, 5:24am Comments
Quickly drawn interpretation of Paul Klee’s “Lune et Coucher De Soleil”, c1919.
December 03, 2010, 3:05pm Comments
“The Sixty Code” study sketch of a foreign language of glyphs or pictorial writing by OFL, ©2010.
October 03, 2010, 1:18pm Comments
A starting point for projects, ideals in architecture are not absolute but rather a collection of thoughts, ideas and mash-ups that ultimately make the journey from paper to completed project a very pleasant one. Many great projects started as simple intuitions, vague ideas, and developed over time into their final shape.
September 28, 2010, 11:33am Comments
