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2003 · Iquique, Tarapaca Region, Chile

Iquique, Tarapaca Region, Chile

21°C · 11.5h daylight · 8 km/h wind

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Quinta Monroy

Iquique, Tarapaca Region, Chile · Exact work coordinates

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Iquique, Tarapaca Region, Chile

Climate: 21°C · 11.5h daylight · 8 km/h wind

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Field	Quinta Monroy 2003 · Iquique, Tarapaca Region, Chile	Joseph Poelaert 1850 · Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2003	1850
Place	Iquique, Tarapaca Region, Chile	Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Place context	Iquique, Tarapaca Region, Chile	Representative site: Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Climate	21°C · 11.5h daylight · 8 km/h wind	9°C · 14.3h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via Church of Our Lady of Laeken
Focus	Affordable housing	5 works in corpus
Architects	Alejandro Aravena	Joseph Poelaert
Linked context	Bureaus ELEMENTAL	Notable works Church of Our Lady of Laeken Palace of Justice, Brussels Church of St. Catherine, Brussels La Monnaie
Typologies	housing social housing residential	church sacred space courthouse civic building monumental architecture house performance venue
Materials	concrete masonry	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.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.