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N2 Gateway Housing Pilot Project

2005-present · Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

18°C · 11.1h daylight · 22 km/h wind

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N2 Gateway Housing Pilot Project

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N2 Gateway Housing Pilot Project

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Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Climate: 18°C · 11.1h daylight · 22 km/h wind

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N2 Gateway Housing Pilot Project

2005-present · Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Joseph Allen SteinJoseph Allen Stein

1952 · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Typeworkbureau
Year / years2005-present1952
PlaceCape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaNew Delhi, Delhi, India
Place contextCape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaRepresentative site: Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Climate18°C · 11.1h daylight · 22 km/h wind30°C · 12.7h daylight · 9 km/h wind · via Express Towers
FocusHousing project2 works in corpus
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  • Joseph Allen Stein
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Notable works

  • Express Towers
  • India Habitat Centre
Typologies
  • housing
  • social housing
  • housing estate
  • tower
  • housing
Materials
  • concrete
  • brick
  • stone
Carbon signals

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

  • Concrete
  • Brick

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.
  • 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.
AccessibilityPrivate or restrictedAccess not recorded across linked works
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