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2001 · Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia

Virgilio Barco Library image

Seed wave 46 image for Virgilio Barco Library.

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Virgilio Barco Library

Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia · Exact work coordinates

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Seed wave 46 image for Virgilio Barco Library.

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Field	Virgilio Barco Library 2001 · Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia	Jo Coenen Architects & Urbanists 1987 · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2001	1987
Place	Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia	Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Place context	Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia	Representative site: Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Climate	14°C · 12.3h daylight · 0 km/h wind	9°C · 14.4h daylight · 13 km/h wind · via DeLaMar
Focus	Library	3 works in corpus
Architects	Rogelio Salmona Rogelio Salmona	Jo Coenen
Linked context	Bureaus Rogelio Salmona	Notable works DeLaMar Netherlands Architecture Institute Vesteda Toren
Typologies	library civic building	performance venue museum library tower
Materials	brick	Not recorded yet.
Carbon signals	Brick look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Brick	performance venue, museum, library, and tower gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.	No levers surfaced yet.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.