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1920 · Cologny, Cologny, Switzerland

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Museum of rare manuscripts in Cologny, Switzerland

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Museum of rare manuscripts in Cologny, Switzerland

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Field	Bodmer Library 1920 · Cologny, Cologny, Switzerland	Joseph Paxton
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1920	Unrecorded
Place	Cologny, Cologny, Switzerland	Unrecorded
Place context	Cologny, Cologny, Switzerland	Representative site: Chatsworth, Chatsworth, United Kingdom
Climate	18°C · 13.8h daylight · 8 km/h wind	8°C · 14.3h daylight · 9 km/h wind · via Emperor Fountain
Focus	Museum	6 works in corpus
Architects	Mario Botta	Joseph Paxton
Linked context	Bureaus Mario Botta Architetto	Notable works Emperor Fountain The Crystal Palace Château de Ferrières Château de Pregny
Typologies	museum library	house cathedral sacred space landscape education campus building building
Materials	Not recorded yet.	glass timber
Carbon signals	museum and library 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.