Native trees plant palette of Rodrigo Facio campus, University of Costa Rica

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2359-5361.paam.2022.179964

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Vegetable palette. Native trees. Landscape architecture. Botany. Design of outdoor spaces.

Abstract

A plant palette is conceived as the inventory of species of a specific place. This inventory describes the botanical and landscape characteristics of the species and is a key working tool for Landscape Architects. Even though Costa Rica encompasses a high ecological biodiversity, there is still a tendency to use non-native species for exterior design. Moreover, scarce literature is found about Costa Rican urban arboriculture. University of Costa Rica Rodrigo Facio Campus (SRF for its Spanish acronym), with an extension of 90 hectare, shelters a great variety of trees from all over the country. This Campus works as a research laboratory for assessing the native trees of Costa Rica. The general objective of the present work was to elaborate a plant palette of the native trees of the SRF that allows to show the diversity of the site and functions as a reference for similar life zones. As a result, 7.917 individuals were identified and mapped, 78% of them were native trees distributed in 57 families and 207 species, the most abundant were Acnistus arborescens and Tabebuia rosea individuals. This study is a guide that aids to establish landscape design criteria and generate strategies to improve the natural patrimony.

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  • Laura Chaverri Flores, Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR). Escuela de Arquitectura y Escuela de Estudios Generales; Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC), Escuela de Arquitectura y Urbanismo

    Architect with master’s degree in Landscaping Architecture and Site Design from the University of Costa Rica (UCR). She studied for a year in the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, in spanish) and has a certificate from the Architectural Landscape Educators for Latin America Program (EDAP II or Educadores en Arquitectura del Paisaje). She works as a teacher and investigator at the School of General Studies and at the School of Architecture from the University of Costa Rica and is the coordinator of the Landscaping and Site Design Master program at the same university. She also works at the School of Architecture and Urbanism from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology (ITCR) and independently in architectural design and landscaping projects. She obtained first place in the XIV international Professional Architectural Biennial 2018, in the “Unbuilt Landscape Architecture” category.

  • Guillermo Chaves Hernández, Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), Escuela de Arquitectura y Escuela de Estudios Generales

    Architect with master's degree in Landscaping and Site Design from the University of Costa Rica; consultant and constructor of landscaping and architectural projects. He specializes in works that integrate architecture, urban design and landscape in an artistic, fluent and low environmental impact way. He obtained first place in the XIV international Professional Architectural Biennial 2018, in the “Unbuilt Landscape Architecture” category. He also is a self-taught draftsman and painter with a long trajectory.

    He works as a professor in the Landscaping and Site Design Master program from the University of Costa Rica. He has given lessons in the University of Design and at the Veritas University (San José, Costa Rica).

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2022-08-23

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Vol. 33 No. 49 (2022)

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Flores, L. C., & Hernández, G. C. . (2022). Native trees plant palette of Rodrigo Facio campus, University of Costa Rica. Paisagem E Ambiente, 33(49), e179964. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2359-5361.paam.2022.179964