insert Nagarote Vocational Training Center for Youth here

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architecture
interior design

Project Mission/Goal:
ViviendasLeon's projects are fundamental works of architecture that are a vehicle for the development of a community. Development is both quantitative and qualitative: the community works with ViviendasLeon and the students who come periodically to join in the construction process. The result is not only a school, but a process that encourages understanding and empathy between people.
For the Nagarote Youth Center ViviendasLeon worked closely with the architecture department at the University of San Francisco forming a unique partnership where the mission from both ends were based on social justice and sustainable development.

Project Description:
The idea of this project is to create a Vocational Training Center for Youth by renovating an abandoned 100+ year-old house using historic preservation techniques to preserve the structure and integrity of this piece of Nicaraguan history. In Fall 2008, Community Design Outreach students from the University of San Francsico designed this project working closely with the NGO ViviendasLeon and staff of the Norwalk-Nagarote Sister City Project.
In Summer 2009, 10 students traveled with Professor Seth Wachtel to Nicaragua to lay out additional classroom buildings on the site and do detailed as-built measurements of the historic main building. Foundation work is scheduled to begin in Summer 2010.
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Project Details:
Project Location: Nagarote, Nicaragua
Date(s): Fall 2008 - Fall 2009
Project Phase: Design Complete, Construction in summer 2010.
Client: Norwalk-Nagarote Sister City Project
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Description and Number of Beneficiaries/Users: Youth of Nagarote
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Concept/Lead Architect(s)/Designer(s): University Of San Francisco Community Design Outreach student team under the direction of Seth Wachtel, Program Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Art + Architecture
Project Architect(s)/Designer(s): Nicaraguan Architect Don Tomas and NGO ViviendasLeon director Evan Markiewicz
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Nominated by Ana Munoz

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