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Biblioteca de Espana in Medellin, Colombia
Biblioteca de Espana

2007 · Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia

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Seed wave 46 image for Biblioteca de Espana.

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Biblioteca de Espana

Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia · Exact work coordinates

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Biblioteca de EspanaBiblioteca de Espana

2007 · Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia

Joseph PoelaertJoseph Poelaert

1850 · Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20071850
PlaceMedellin, Antioquia, ColombiaBrussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Place contextMedellin, Antioquia, ColombiaRepresentative site: Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Climate15°C · 12.3h daylight · 3 km/h wind6°C · 14.1h daylight · 7 km/h wind · via Church of Our Lady of Laeken
FocusLibrary park5 works in corpus
Architects
  • Giancarlo Mazzanti
  • Joseph Poelaert
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Giancarlo Mazzanti

Notable works

  • Church of Our Lady of Laeken
  • Palace of Justice, Brussels
  • Church of St. Catherine, Brussels
  • La Monnaie
Typologies
  • library
  • cultural building
  • civic building
  • church
  • sacred space
  • courthouse
  • civic building
  • monumental architecture
  • house
  • performance venue
Materials
  • stone
  • concrete
  • glass
  • stone
Carbon signals

Concrete, Glass, and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Glass
  • Stone

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.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
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