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1987 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

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Institut du Monde Arabe

Paris, Ile-de-France, France · City-level coordinates only

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Field	Institut du Monde Arabe 1987 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France	Christian Menn 1960 · Chur, Graubunden, Switzerland
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1987	1960
Place	Paris, Ile-de-France, France	Chur, Graubunden, Switzerland
Place context	Paris, Ile-de-France, France	Representative site: Ried-Brig, Ried-Brig, Switzerland
Climate	16°C · 14.0h daylight · 14 km/h wind	14°C · 13.8h daylight · 16 km/h wind · via Ganter Bridge
Focus	Cultural institute	1 works in corpus
Architects	Jean Nouvel	Christian Menn
Linked context	Bureaus Ateliers Jean Nouvel	Notable works Ganter Bridge
Typologies	cultural center institutional building museum	infrastructure
Materials	glass steel aluminum	concrete
Carbon signals	Aluminum, Steel, and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Aluminum Steel Glass	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	Focus on recycled content, lighter assemblies, and careful facade-specification choices. Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	Access not recorded across linked works
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.