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September 30 2008 -Students To Unveil Boat Clinic Designs For Southeast Asia

 

Students in a Texas A&M University architecture-for-health design studio are readying to unveil the concepts for boat clinics — floating facilities designed to provide health care services for millions of people who live in coastal areas in Vietnam and the Philippines.

The public is invited to see the students present their models and drawings at 2 p.m. Wednesday (Oct. 1) in the Wright Gallery, located in Building A of the Langford Architecture Center on the Texas A&M campus. “Of Vietnam’s 84 million people, 17.4 million live in the Mekong River Delta, and in the Philippines nearly 90 million people live on 7,017 islands,” said studio instructor George Mann, holder of the Ronald L. Skaggs, FAIA & Joseph G. Sprague FAIA Endowed Chair in Health Facilities Design.  More

 

 

 





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