THE TURI A C O L L E G E AN D WOR KS H O P Andrew Wardrope The Turia College and Workshop sits between the Via del Parque strand of the Turia Delta masterplan and the existing maritime village of Nazareth, a suburb of Valencia. It houses an apprentice college for 16-18 year old students, based on a nation-wide initiative to provide dual academic and vocational training as a response to high youth unemployment in Spain.
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The proposal has two halves. The first is a teaching facility for apprentices to attend 2 days a week for academic support alongside their work placement elsewhere in Valencia. The second half is a furniture workshop, which provides one of the available placements ‘in-house’ within the college campus. Public urban furniture that is designed and made by the workshop is tested as prototypes in the neighbouring landscape of the Turia Delta proposal. It is therefore hoped that the Turia College and Workshop will act as a driver for a rich and detailed public realm in the masterplan scheme.
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