Design Consultancy Studio concerned with the elaboration of product & interaction design projects from conceptual stage to completion. Projects range from set design, to product, graphic, interaction and software design.  Clients include True Story Management, Grasslark, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Microsoft Windows Store and PUCPR School of Architecture.

Team coordinator and User Experience Designer for a Mobile Application serving tourists and museum visitors. The project serves the purpose of expanding each museum’s presence in its local context by searching for complementary activities visitors can attend, exhibition information, as well as gathering data on visitor trends.  Museums are: Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art of Ponce, and the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico.

Design, Fabrication & Curation of a 600 sq. ft. space exhibiting projects from 10 experimental Units within the University, as well as Students’ and Professors’ Products. Materials used include, mainly, Stainless Steel Sheet Metal, Wood and acrylic panels. See project here.

Part of a team that designed & installed an exhibit containing a collective of 16 design studios from Puerto Rico in Wanted Design, as part of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York. Participation seen here.

Led a group of 24 architecture students to design and construct four habitable pavilions celebrating Plaza del Caribe’s 20th anniversary, within the four main atriums of the Shopping Centre. In sum the structures were 2,700 sq. ft., including the Main Pavilion with dimensions of 50 x 30 ft. All pavilions were constructed and structurally supported by the cardboard discarded by Plaza del Caribe’s stores, in total amassing 10 tons of cardboard, constructed in 1 month, with 0 waste material.  See project here.

Developed and assisted in the formation of the first student company, as well as the formation of the PUCPR School of Architecture Entrepreneurship Program. This Agenda has allowed students and professors to present their efforts as participants in the Euronext global competition of student entrepreneurs in the New York Stock Exchange, and as guest speakers at the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization in Chicago 2012.

Led a group of five architecture students to design and construct the furniture that would constitute the reading hall for the first art exchange between El Prado Museum in Spain, and any Museum in the American Continent. The project spanned 64 ft of cardboard, to constitute all seating and reading furniture within the hall. This furniture is still in use today. See project here.

Collaboration with Trevor Irving Productions, in the design and development of an iPad adapter for credit card transactions. The project seeks to substitute all cash registers in AT&T and Verizon Wireless stores. Role in the project ranged from design, to CAD design and meetings with industrial & electrical engineers. Project is currently in production phase.

This campaign included designing small paraphernalia that were distributed freely, as a pay-what-you-wish effort to raise funds and awareness for the conditions in Haiti within the architecture community. All funds received were donated to three NGOs in Port-au-Prince. See project here.

Projects involved a wide variety of scales, from single residential units to higher density apartment buildings of medium scale, as well as Civic buildings, landscape architecture, product design and low-tech installations for children. As a small 3-4 person firm, it has done various pro-bono work, mostly in the areas of single-unit housing and general urban planning for small communities. Tasks undertaken ranged from conceptual design and generation of ideas, to modeling, schematic design and construction documents, as well as writing and editing written publications. See projects here.

Provided assistance and care for children with acute mental and physical disabilities.

In charge of design studios in 1st, 2nd & 4th year, Urbanism Theory & History in 4th year, and architectural representation studios from 1st to 5th year. Course topics include: design fundamentals, contextual and historic design, urbanism and landscape architecture.

Coordinator of architectural representation courses across all years. Coordinator of professors and design studios in first year. This includes Over 15 professors, and all students enrolled in design or representation courses during their Bachelor's degree.

Book containing methods, procedures and theories concerning all representation courses taught during Bachelor's degree. This book will serve as a manual and guide for incoming and existing professors to teach their corresponding courses.

This collaboration seeks to exchange possible points of convergence between interactive anatomical modeling, and architecture for the purpose of  developing joint research opportunities between both institutions.

Generation of 15 abstracts discussing various topics on the application of technological advances within architectural theory, design, and construction. This will serve to progressively develop topics for publication within the faculty.

Series of exhibitions and courses given to professors to aid in understanding and use of rapid prototyping technologies. Topics include 3D Printing, CNC Milling Machines, Laser Cutting,  Arduino, Basics of Circuitry & Electronics, and Maya Modeling and Simulations.  Exhibitions include 4x4x4, which included 8 professors' 3D printed structures, modeled using Maya software animation and simulation tools, under my instruction.

Development of scripts to facilitate common procedures related to landscape architecture, simulations of natural phenomena,  and analysis of terrain.  Assorted video tutorials to introduce students to different softwares such as Autodesk Maya, and Photoshop.

Invited Jury in all architecture schools in Puerto Rico, since second year of Bachelor's education.

Triple peer blind reviewed research on Algorithms and Theory of Computer Science. This written research focuses on procedures developed by computational pioneers such as Alan Turing, Charles Babbage, Stephen Wolfram and John Frazer. The purpose of this research is to develop search and logic algorithms, applied to a database of architecture theory, to generate new links, logic, and connections, to expand the role of technology from form-related endeavors, to generation of theory. For publication in Inter-Disciplinary.net's Visual Literacies and Creative Engagement Conference, in Lisbon March 2015

Research into a modular construction system that is both structure and skin simultaneously, generated from self-similar units, and capable of achieving complex double curvatures within a range of adaptability in overall form. See project here.

Research into the programmed deposition of fibers for development of structure, elasticity, conductivity, porosity and other composite qualities. These studies were carried through digitally simulated, as well as physical means, as part of the Master's thesis research at the Architectural Association. See project here.

Written research on the structuring of Compendium Books within architectural theory, as well as selected magazines, focusing on it's effects in structuring architecture curricula. This was part of a two phase, Bachelor's End-of-Career proposal, including theory and building proposal. See project here.

Written research on the clustering of themes within Mall structures. This research sought to study the evolution of the mall environment from previous building types - such as monasteries, penitentiaries, and hospitals, and its role in structuring images and pleasures in contemporary society.

Discussion on the legacy of computational pioneers such as Alan Turing and Charles Babbage, and their relevance in rethinking design methods applied within architecture.

Topics centered around the role of academic institutions in developing economic and creative strategies for city growth.  Event link here.

Part of a four person panel discussing the future of additive manufacturing.

Part of a collective of 16 design studios from Puerto Rico that exhibitied in Wanted Design, as part of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Participation seen here.

Topics included the endeavors undertaken within the PUCPR School of Architecture in establishing an entrepreneurial program within our architecture curriculum. This agenda focused on creating student-led companies and coordinating student involved efforts in solving real-world economic and community-related issues. This was the first time an architecture school served as speakers in this forum's history.

Rodríguez, Francisco; Marrero, Darwin. Contemporary Architecture in Puerto Rico : 1993-2010.  University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture, San Juan, P.R, 2011.

Book can be seen here. Project Exhibited is Cone of Vision, as part of in.formation.studio, seen here.

Exhibited project Automated Deposition, seen here.

Project for Roosevelt Roads military base in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. The project proposed various landscaping, mobility, and energy-related strategies for re-programming the area within the military base

As part of in.formation.studio, won first place for project seen here.

Urban project that employed diverse landscape strategies for improving soil quality in a historic town containing one of three remaining sugar cane processing plants in Puerto Rico.