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December last year, a very good friend of mine passed away, her name is Mariah. This piece is dedicated to her, her loved ones, and her family.
The painting represents the beauty and tenacious of her spirit, with all of her health conditions she never wanted anyone to worry, she is in my heart and will remain.

The medical research tower is about the global necessities regarding social, environmental, and architectural issues.
Mumbai is the ideal city for this project; the proposal consists of building into the ocean to not consume the scarce availability of land in Mumbai as well as globally. Another issue is the global population rising every day and the continuous diseases spreading throughout the third world countries. Going into this project our main concentration was designing a medical tower for the highly concentrated HIV issue in the world. After our research was done we saw that HIV was not the only predominant issue being faced, the issues of water pollution, over population, numerous health diseases, global warming, and poverty became more apparent as our scrutinizing deepened. As we studied different parts of the world that would fit the needs of our ideal skyscraper for the future we noticed that Mumbai was the adequate site to be an example for the world. Currently India is the third country with the highest HIV-inhabitants in the world. Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia, located in Mumbai has over a million people and is highly affected by over-population, water contaminated-related diseases, lack of sanitation, etc. Also another strong element to Mumbai is The Bandra Worli Sea-Link built in this past summer of (09). The proposal is anchored within the structure of the bridge into the Arabian Sea. Inside the entire building there is a communal plaza, hospital (main tower), technology (collection/distribution), and a U.N. embassy chambers (to oversee the entire facility and to promote new programs for the people). The main tower is dedicated to the medical field, a research tower to experiment on the already numerous sickened population. The 12 million living in these conditions will be offered this opportunity voluntarily. The skin of the tower has a triple layer of 1.structure/infrastructure to collect water, 2. Solar photovoltaic panels, and 3. Micro wind turbines. The entire proposal will attend to 500,000 people, although this is not enough, it is a beginning. Our idea continues to different parts of the world including Kibera, Kenya, Lagos, Nigeria, Kwa-zulu, South Africa.

For two years in a row I have had the privilege to win the cover for the University of Houston Handbook and represent the school with my art.
“Diversity_University 08-09”
The theme I was searching to captivate was how diverse the University of Houston is. I decided to combine different languages, flags representing different nationalities, and the symbol of the cougar being integrated within it.
“The Spirit Within 09-10”
I wanted to combine all elements of the theme into one strong composition. The three cougars show the evolution of the cougar in spirit. The colors used are the school colors, and the photos in the background represent the spirit, diversity, and beauty of the University of Houston students and representatives.

the spirit of the University of Houston through the school colors and the social interaction of the people within the school. Its past, present, and future are incorporated with distinct images from its beginning in1927 to its bright future.

I was invited to speak in the second edition of the Pecha Kucha Houston 20 slide 20-second speech, which demonstrates what each artist is about. Giving this speech is a fulfillment because I feel that some of my work and goals can be misinterpreted, so I focused on what and where I came from to explain the upbringing of my ideology within my work. Thank you for this opportunity, and for all the people there who gave a listen.

Earth_Awake is an installation expressing the current epidemic of natural disasters occurring around the world, especially in Latin America: Haiti, Chile, and Baja California with Earthquakes and Global Warming. “La Lengua Muerte” is an art exhibit focusing on being Latin in America, this installation was done for this particular show.

Earth_Awake is my plea to the world to be aware, attentive, and to awaken to the situations millions of people are facing, and that inevitably the entire world will face, which is climatic change and Global Warming. To express this concept I used cardboard to symbolize the movement of the earth integrated in to the wall as one enters the space in the Labotanica Gallery to give a 3-dimensional effect.
Words are sporadically spread through the piece to implement the countries affected. In my work I use each theme to find reason behind a social and global issue. Hearing about the show dealing with Latin American culture, I immediately began contemplating how to incorporate the catastrophic events of the earthquakes around the world, especially in Latin America into this show.

The focus of this studio led project was to design a ceiling system within a new Jury Space in the Architecture Building for the University of Houston. The studio I was a part of developed a Ceiling Cloud that clips on to a modified suspended ceiling grid using lightweight folded aluminum panels that are designed to incrementally change dimension and drape into the space below. Constraints and variables within the parametric models allowed for the optimization and extraction of 150 unique panels that are also perforated with their own individual pattern. The variations in the folded surface disburse and dissipate sound through refraction and absorption created by the corrugation in the panels and their perforation. The holes are also calibrated as a gradient to allow more light to penetrate in the center of the space away from the walls which will be lit with exhibition wall armature lighting.

Recently the project won 1st place on the FAB Research Cluster at the Architectural Association in London 2009 AA|FAB Awards for this project.

The list of people involved are: Scott Marble, visiting critic (Marble Fairbanks/Columbia GSAPP); Andrew Vrana and Joe Meppelink, adjunct professors (University of Houston College of Architecture/METALAB); Rajaa Issa, paneling tools and grasshopper parametric software support (McNeel & Associates); and Ambox Limited (CNC laser cutting). Studio students were Eric Arnold (lighting and acoustics); Hugo Palma (modularity), Preetal Shah (patterning); Jonathan Aljets (display systems); Fabian Vargas (fabrication); and Alan Nguyen (parametric design). The digital fabrication seminar consisted of Marco Teran, Travis McCarra, Jenny Macedo, Lara Hamilton, Agustin Prebisch and Alex Smith.