The Yestermorrow Design Build School of Vermont, USA, the educational tourism operator Tours, Trips, Treks & Travel and Espeleogrupo de Santo Domingo, Inc., the leading cave exploration group in the DR. with funding from Marmotech, SA, Dominicana de Cales, SA and Cemex Dominican have built a new entrance to the cave system that is believed to contain the largest collection of rupestrian art in the Caribbean. Professors Kyle Bergman, a New York architect, Sandy Lawton, Yestermorrow?s architect and builder in Vermont and Abreu Vilomar from the PUCMM architecture school worked with eight students from the US and three Dominican students to build the entrance. Yestermorrow runs intensive hands-on courses in sustainable design, building, woodworking and traditional crafts. Bergman described the new entrance as a way of creating a transition between both worlds. ?The idea is when you park there is a threshold and you walk through a curving wall, inspired by the cave and the curtain-walls in caves. It tells you that you are moving from our normal world to a very special world,? he says.
See www.yestermorrow.org/courses/wbc/dominican.htm