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"The context for Jonathan’s work, a live project for the regeneration of the redundant port of Andrejsala in Riga, posed a tremendous challenge. It is a mature piece of work from such a young man, and one that has received the approval not only of his tutors but equally of the various stakeholders and collaborators with whom Jonathan and his fellow students worked with in Riga." Robert Brown / Krzysztof Nawratek New Industrial / Educational Facility for Andrejsala. Central to this strategy is adaptability, acting as a catalyst for a new industrial revolution. Education is a key component to ensure less reliance upon unstable global trends and producing knowledge to utilise the country’s vast natural resources. Given the current fragile economy, it would be short-sighted to propose anything other than a socially and environmentally sustainable strategy. In this context this strategy proposes a government-based industrial think tank and a timber technologies company acting as catalysts to encourage further development. Based on cradle-to-cradle principles and building on Riga’s historic relationship with timber (it has been said that Riga has more wooden architecture than any other European city), this will start from sustainably-managed government-owned forests, supplying timber that will be transported via the Daugava River to Andrejsala for processing, and then distributed by rail (and ship) throughout the city, country and Europe...... To read more download the text document below 
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