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Universidad Europea Turia Campus
The former San Juan Bautista Asylum in Valencia rehabilitated as a university campus, with a new annex on the west of the site.
The former asylum and its new annex seen from above, beside the old Turia riverbed.
The project
Universidad Europea Turia Campus brings the university's new urban headquarters to the former San Juan Bautista Asylum, close to the historic centre of Valencia and beside the old Turia riverbed.
The project respects the existing building and its most valuable elements. Shared uses sit in the central body, classrooms and offices in the side wings, and the classrooms connect both to the outside garden and to the inner cloisters. A new annex to the west uses the same materials, colours and rhythms as the historic complex.
During the works, a Spanish Civil War air-raid shelter was found on the site. The building's nolla tile floors, a 19th-century ceramic mosaic made in Meliana, were restored with a specialist archaeologist using traditional techniques.
- Practice
- Ramón Esteve Estudio
- Year
- 2024
- Photographer
- Alfonso Calza
- Built area
- 7,159 m² (rehabilitation 5,406 m², extension 1,753 m²)
- Site area
- 7,903 m²
- Completion
- Extension 2023, rehabilitation 2024
- Building levels
- 3
The restored former chapel with its vaulted ceiling.
A cloister gallery with restored tiled floors and planting.
The annex façade with its regular grid of openings.
A classroom with nolla tile floors and decorated wall bands.
Carved timber doors opening into the entrance hall.
A gallery beside the planted cloister.
A common room beneath exposed beams and stone arches.
A classroom in the annex with full-height glazing towards the trees.
Credits
- Architect
- Ramón Esteve Estudio
- Engineering
- Leing Ingeniería
- Landscape
- GM Paisajistas
- Structures
- Cub Estudio
- Contractors
- KALAM and Vialterra
- Photographer
- Alfonso Calza
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