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Exterior view of Walden 7 in Sant Just Desvern, showing the red modular housing mass and stacked terraces.

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Walden 7

1975 · Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain

Walden 7 exterior view

Exterior view of Walden 7 in Sant Just Desvern.

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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Typeworkbureau
Year / years1975Unrecorded
PlaceSant Just Desvern, Catalonia, SpainAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Place contextSant Just Desvern, Catalonia, SpainRepresentative site: Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Climate14°C · 13.6h daylight · 5 km/h wind7°C · 14.2h daylight · 5 km/h wind · via Dresden Hauptbahnhof
FocusHousing complex55 works in corpus
Architects
  • Ricardo Bofill
  • Norman Foster
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

Notable works

  • Dresden Hauptbahnhof
  • Reichstag building
  • British Library of Political and Economic Science
  • Cohen House, London
Typologies
  • housing
  • residential complex
  • collective housing
  • building
  • library
  • education
  • house
  • church
  • sacred space
  • museum
  • gallery
Materials
  • concrete
  • ceramic
  • painted stucco
  • glass
  • steel
  • granite
  • ETFE
  • wood
  • concrete
  • stone
Carbon signals

Concrete, Ceramic, and Painted Stucco look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Ceramic
  • Painted Stucco

Concrete, Steel, and ETFE look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • ETFE
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.
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityPrivate or restricted10 of 10 recorded works are publicly accessible
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