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Green Building (MIT) in Cambridge, United States

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Green Building (MIT)

1964 · Cambridge, Cambridge, United States

Green Building (MIT) image

Research labs, education in Massachusetts, US

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Green Building (MIT)

Cambridge, Cambridge, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Green Building (MIT)Green Building (MIT)

1964 · Cambridge, Cambridge, United States

Kengo Kuma & AssociatesKengo Kuma & Associates

Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Typeworkbureau
Year / years1964Unrecorded
PlaceCambridge, Cambridge, United StatesFukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Place contextCambridge, Cambridge, United StatesRepresentative site: Akasaka, Akasaka, Japan
Climate9°C · 13.7h daylight · 12 km/h wind11°C · 13.3h daylight · 2 km/h wind · via Suntory Museum of Art
FocusHouse16 works in corpus
Architects
  • I. M. Pei
  • Kengo Kuma
Linked context

Bureaus

  • I. M. Pei & Partners

Notable works

  • Suntory Museum of Art
  • Takaosanguchi Station
  • Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian
  • Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum
Typologies
  • house
  • infrastructure
  • museum
  • house
  • performance venue
  • building
  • cultural building
  • landscape
  • civic building
  • tourism infrastructure
Materials
  • earth
  • bamboo
  • wood
  • glass
  • steel
  • other
  • timber
Carbon signals

Earth look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Earth

Steel, Bamboo, and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Steel
  • Bamboo
  • Glass
Lower-carbon levers
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • 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.
AccessibilityAccess not recorded10 of 10 recorded works are publicly accessible
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