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2008 · Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam University College image

Educational institution in the Netherlands

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Amsterdam University College

Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands · Exact work coordinates

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Educational institution in the Netherlands

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Field	Amsterdam University College 2008 · Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands	Joseph Paxton
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2008	Unrecorded
Place	Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands	Unrecorded
Place context	Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands	Representative site: Chatsworth, Chatsworth, United Kingdom
Climate	8°C · 14.3h daylight · 9 km/h wind	10°C · 14.3h daylight · 0 km/h wind · via Emperor Fountain
Focus	Education building	6 works in corpus
Architects	Francine Houben	Joseph Paxton
Linked context	Bureaus Mecanoo	Notable works Emperor Fountain The Crystal Palace Château de Ferrières Château de Pregny
Typologies	education campus building landscape	house cathedral sacred space landscape education campus building building
Materials	Not recorded yet.	glass timber
Carbon signals	education, campus building, and landscape gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.