| Type | work | bureau |
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| Year / years | 2017 | 1850 |
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| Place | Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France | Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium |
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| Place context | Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France | Representative site: Brussels, Brussels, Belgium |
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| Climate | 12°C · 13.7h daylight · 6 km/h wind | 7°C · 14.1h daylight · 8 km/h wind · via Church of Our Lady of Laeken |
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| Focus | Housing renovation | 5 works in corpus |
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| Architects | - Anne Lacaton
- Jean-Philippe Vassal
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| Linked context | Bureaus | Notable works - Church of Our Lady of Laeken
- Palace of Justice, Brussels
- Church of St. Catherine, Brussels
- La Monnaie
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| Typologies | - housing
- renovation
- social housing
| - church
- sacred space
- courthouse
- civic building
- monumental architecture
- house
- performance venue
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| Materials | - concrete
- glass
- polycarbonate
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| Carbon signals | Concrete, Glass, and Polycarbonate look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. - Concrete
- Glass
- Polycarbonate
| Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. |
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| 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.
- Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
| - Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
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| Accessibility | Private or restricted | 5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible |
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| Related books | | No linked books yet. |
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