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By Michael Schaub
The Bait'alion
T he assignment: draft plans to
convert a 600-foot ocean lin
er into a hospital that will
provide indigent Asian people
with free health care.
The time frame: Five weeks.
It might not sound like an ordi
nary class assignment, but for se
nior environmental design majors
Manon Sora Koestoer and Ryan
Garcia, the conversion was just an
other final project.
“We’d work all day and all
night,” Garcia said, “and then
maybe go play some pool."
“And then go back to work
again,” Koestoer said.
Koestoer, 23, and Garcia, 22, de
signed plans for the ocean liner
Asia Mercy as the final project for
their Architecture 485 class.
The plans for the liner were
commissioned by Mercy Ships, a
nonprofit organization based in
Lindale, Texas.
“I was talking about Indonesia
with Professor (George) Mann,”
Indonesia native Koestoer said. “I
told him there were 3,000 inhabit
ed islands there. [Mann] thought it
would be a good idea to design a
ship that could access all the is
lands to provide health care.”
Koestoer and Garcia came
across Mercy Ships’ web site while
surfing the Internet one day.
“We called them, and it turned
out thhy ha'd’the same idea Vvb
did,” C iarcin said.
Mercy Ships maintains liners
that serve Africa, the Caribbean
and South America. In about 20
years, the company treated more
than 70,000 people and performed
more than 4,500 operations, at no
cost to patients.
Don Stephens, president and
CEO of Mercy Ships, said Mann con
tacted him about Koestoers suggest
ed project two days after he decided
to expand Mercy Ships to Asia.
"This project is one of the reasons
I think students select Texas A&M
University,” Stephens said. “It will
give A&M international status in the
area of humanitarikn assistance."
The students researched the
project and drafted preliminary
designs in four weeks,and drew
the final design in 10 days.
“We started late and finished
early,” he said. “We had three
weeks of nothing but research.”
Neither of the students had de
signed a ship before, Koestoer said.
“You have certain restrictions,”
Garcia said. “You can’t go outside
the lines.”
“We can’t extend the area,”
Koestoer added. “It’s Fixed like that.
We can’t grow it; we can’t shrink it.”
The students were assisted by
Mann, a professor of architecture,
and Kaname Yanagisawa, a visiting
scholar in architecture.
“These two students were deter
mined to do a lot of work in a short
period of time,” Mann said. “This is
extremely important for the students
and the world they will serve.”
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