Virtual Levin

This is a bridge we had to cross on our hike to Finca Amapala

When do classes start??? With views like this, who wants to come home and be stuck indoors!!??

Craig, one of the landscape architects that worked on the Finca project, got stuck riding the donkey back to the finca. He was nice enough to let us girls ride the horses.

Views are everywhere here. This is another view from the Finca.

Who knows what exactly they were looking at on the ground in the banana plantation.

This is the board that was designed for proposed changes in eco-tourism, agriculure and reforestation for the Finca Amapala Management plan.

This rendering illustrates the exisiting conditions on the finca

this is a blow up diagram of the area that we proposed to put a terraced vegetable garden along the trail from the lodge to the dining hall

Well, the second semester ended last Thursday (Aug 3) with presentations on projects from both Semesters. The second project I worked on was a managment plan for a farm that wanted to focus on sustainable agriculture as well as eco-tourism. This was the difficult one out of the two that I had worked on. Mostly because up until two weeks before our deadline, we really werent sure what the client was looking for.

There were four of us working on this project: 2 planners, 2 landscape architects. The farm is located on the Pacific Slope Trail and has a lodge there that can provide lodging to hikers. At this point there is the lodge with 16 bunk-beds, cooking facilities and bathrooms with showers. Our job was to document the existing conditions as well as design ways in which the farm can be improved for sustainable agriculture and eco-tourism.