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1975 · Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain

Walden 7 exterior view

Exterior view of Walden 7 in Sant Just Desvern.

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Walden 7

Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain · Exact work coordinates

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Exterior view of Walden 7 in Sant Just Desvern.

Credit: Zarateman

Rights: CC0 · licensed

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Field	Walden 7 1975 · Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain	Christian de Portzamparc 1980 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1975	1980
Place	Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain	Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Place context	Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain	Representative site: Nanterre, Nanterre, France
Climate	22°C · 13.5h daylight · 5 km/h wind	12°C · 14.0h daylight · 13 km/h wind · via Tour Granite
Focus	Housing complex	9 works in corpus
Architects	Ricardo Bofill	Christian de Portzamparc
Linked context	Bureaus Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura	Notable works Tour Granite Musée Hergé Cidade das Artes Paris La Défense Arena
Typologies	housing residential complex collective housing	office museum building tower hospitality landscape house library
Materials	concrete ceramic painted stucco	stone
Carbon signals	Concrete, Ceramic, and Painted Stucco look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Ceramic Painted Stucco	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	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.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Private or restricted	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.