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Sacrificial Landscapes - Tales of an Ecuadorian Mangrove Forest This past year, I’ve had the privilege of developing Sacrificial Landscapes, a design research project unveiling the hidden extractive forces carved into Ecuador’s deforeste
The Image is the main representational driver for this project. When looking at Jeff Wall’s image of the Barcelona Pavilion, the architecture and the labor that maintains it is composed onto a singular pictorial image. This images are designed
The Concrete Truck Mixer #475 is one of many characters in the city. Ephemeral yet enduring, it coexists in the booming city of Los Angeles. It’s existence is necessary for the production of buildings, but here it attempts to take a role in ar
The Hedge Garden is arranged in the west corner of the La Brea Tar Pits. It acts as a research center for the extraction, incubation and archiving of the fossils extracted from the tar. The Hedge being in constant state of growth and decay, it allow
The “Struggling Pavilion” sits in the middle of the La Brea Tar Pits, acting as a public and exhibition space for the museum goers and researchers. This object samples the gesturality of the sinking mammoth in the tar, giving it the appe
The “New Page Museum” houses an extensive collection of natural history artifacts extracted from within the site. It sits alongside “Chora’s Hub” which distributes the museum goers to the rest of the park. This object s
This proposal for the La Brea Tar Pits is a natural history museum and park in Los Angeles. Its architecture and systems of production aspire to the status of a spectacle, offering themselves as demonstrative performances. They become represented thr
Demolition of L.A. Metros Heavy Rail Maintenance Facility, Nov. 2019

ARCHITECT & DESIGN RESEARCHER

Alejandro Loor (b. Guayaquil, Ecuador) is an architect and design researcher whose practice interrogates the hidden forces shaping modern life, particularly within the contexts of Latin America and the Global South.