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1961 · Boulder, Boulder, United States

Mesa Laboratory image

Research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado

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Mesa Laboratory

Boulder, Boulder, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado

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Field	Mesa Laboratory 1961 · Boulder, Boulder, United States	Karl Moser 1888 · Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1961	1888
Place	Boulder, Boulder, United States	Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Place context	Boulder, Boulder, United States	Representative site: Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
Climate	20°C · 13.5h daylight · 10 km/h wind	16°C · 13.9h daylight · 8 km/h wind · via Old Cantonal School Aarau
Focus	Architecture	4 works in corpus
Architects	I. M. Pei	Karl Moser
Linked context	Bureaus I. M. Pei & Partners	Notable works Old Cantonal School Aarau St. Paul's Church, Basel St. Paul's Church, Bern Basel Badischer Bahnhof
Typologies	building	education church sacred space gallery tower performance venue
Materials	concrete	stone glass
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	Glass and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass 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.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	4 of 4 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.