Watch: Explore Texas A&M Soltis Center In Costa Rica
Dramatic aerial views of Texas A&M’s Soltis Center for Research and Education in Costa Rica enliven a video created by Julian Kang, associate professor of construction science, who is helping to lead a spring 2016 multidisciplinary studio at the center.
Kang shot the video during spring break 2016 while accompanying landscape architecture students who spent their class time designing proposals for additional Soltis Center facilities. He also videotaped the students in the center’s adjacent 54,000-acre rain forest.
Groups from four different Texas A&M departments also traveled to the center to work on the project over the course of the spring semester.
Students from the Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences developed research and educational program proposals based on a survey, conducted by geography students of the physical and social landscape of region.
During a May 2016 minimester, construction science students will visit the center and use building information modeling software to create building plans and cost estimates based on the landscape architecture students’ design concepts.
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This article originally appeared in ArchOne.
