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1975 · Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain

Walden 7 exterior view

Exterior view of Walden 7 in Sant Just Desvern.

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Walden 7

Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain · Exact work coordinates

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Exterior view of Walden 7 in Sant Just Desvern.

Credit: Zarateman

Rights: CC0 · licensed

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Field	Walden 7 1975 · Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain	Lucio Costa 1930 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1975	1930
Place	Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain	Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Place context	Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain	Representative site: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Climate	22°C · 13.5h daylight · 5 km/h wind	22°C · 11.5h daylight · 2 km/h wind · via Vila Operária da Gamboa
Focus	Housing complex	2 works in corpus
Architects	Ricardo Bofill	Lucio Costa
Linked context	Bureaus Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura	Notable works Vila Operária da Gamboa Brasília TV Tower
Typologies	housing residential complex collective housing	building museum tower landscape
Materials	concrete ceramic painted stucco	Not recorded yet.
Carbon signals	Concrete, Ceramic, and Painted Stucco look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Ceramic Painted Stucco	building, museum, tower, and landscape gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.	No levers surfaced yet.
Accessibility	Private or restricted	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.