EARTH University at La Flor could be realized as the integration of living and learning. They could be an example to the local community by providing a threshold where sensory impulses are slightly unique. With awareness of this shift visitors could see, hear, and taste with new appreciation. The local community can be reached, their access made welcoming and their need for jobs, waste management, land and water planning can be addressed. A projection of La Flor is a place where you may live and learn in connection with the land, waking up with the monkeys at 5:30 in the morning, drinking juice from the fruit you work to harvest and gathering as a community which will learn how to embark in a process of lifelong learning.

The industrial park to the south will be an established, integrated entity of living, working and transportation. One remaining challenge is the integration of that independent entity with the academic and social components of EARTH’s program. Because education is about the people we may receive them through their cultural sensibilities. Our decisions could be inspired by the local historical architectural methods of sun doors, ventilation windows and floor boards, Boreque walls, compact calcium dirt roads and a community meeting under Guanacaste trees.