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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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Walden 7

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Walden 7Walden 7

1975 · Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain

Herbert BakerHerbert Baker

1892 · London, England, United Kingdom

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19751892
PlaceSant Just Desvern, Catalonia, SpainLondon, England, United Kingdom
Place contextSant Just Desvern, Catalonia, SpainRepresentative site: Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Climate19°C · 13.5h daylight · 4 km/h wind15°C · 11.1h daylight · 22 km/h wind · via Houses of Parliament, Cape Town
FocusHousing complex43 works in corpus
Architects
  • Ricardo Bofill
  • Herbert Baker
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

Notable works

  • Houses of Parliament, Cape Town
  • St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town
  • State House, Nairobi
  • St Boniface Church, Germiston
Typologies
  • housing
  • residential complex
  • collective housing
  • housing
  • house
  • office
  • civic building
  • church
  • sacred space
  • cathedral
  • chapel
Materials
  • concrete
  • ceramic
  • painted stucco
  • timber
  • brick
  • stone
Carbon signals

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

  • Concrete
  • Ceramic
  • Painted Stucco

Brick and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Brick
  • 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.
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
AccessibilityPrivate or restricted14 of 14 recorded works are publicly accessible
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