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1964 · Cambridge, Cambridge, United States

Green Building (MIT) image

Research labs, education in Massachusetts, US

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Green Building (MIT)

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Research labs, education in Massachusetts, US

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Field	Green Building (MIT) 1964 · Cambridge, Cambridge, United States	Adolf Loos 1896 · Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1964	1896
Place	Cambridge, Cambridge, United States	Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Place context	Cambridge, Cambridge, United States	Representative site: Innere Stadt, Innere Stadt, Austria
Climate	6°C · 13.7h daylight · 15 km/h wind	8°C · 14.1h daylight · 8 km/h wind · via Café Museum
Focus	House	5 works in corpus
Architects	I. M. Pei	Adolf Loos
Linked context	Bureaus I. M. Pei & Partners	Notable works Café Museum Looshaus Rufer House Villa Muller
Typologies	house infrastructure	museum housing house villa modernism
Materials	earth	stucco concrete timber
Carbon signals	Earth look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Earth	Concrete and Stucco look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Stucco
Lower-carbon levers	Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.