Lorena Gabaldon’s architecture emerges from the Tropics and her education at the Central University of Venezuela, a school deeply rooted in the integration of art, architecture, and landscape, whose campus was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Trained during an era where heritage, climate, and context were central, she develops architecture that is sensitive, hybrid, and smart. Core principles include cross-ventilation, shading, seamless interior-exterior relationships, and integration with nature.
Lorena´s work explores the purity and nobility of materials, respected in their essence and carefully articulated. She masters the control and gradation of natural light, filtered and modulated to cool interior spaces and reduce reliance on mechanical systems, favoring passive and sustainable solutions. The creation of microclimates, the design of spatial flows, the play of volumes, and natural lighting are part of architecture conceived to be experienced physically and sensorially.
This sensitivity is deeply influenced by her uncle and godfather, Mario Gabaldón, a key figure in environmental protection and responsible for establishing 35 national parks in Venezuela, who instilled the importance of every project dialoguing with its surroundings.
Criteria is Lorena’s guiding principle, above taste or fashion, determining coherence, hierarchy, and strength in every project. The result is not merely architecture but spaces that foster life, perception, and the experience of inhabiting them.