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Exterior view of Walden 7 in Sant Just Desvern, showing the red modular housing mass and stacked terraces.

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Walden 7

1975 · Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain

Walden 7 exterior view

Exterior view of Walden 7 in Sant Just Desvern.

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Seoul, South Korea

Typeworkbureau
Year / years1975Unrecorded
PlaceSant Just Desvern, Catalonia, SpainSeoul, South Korea
Place contextSant Just Desvern, Catalonia, SpainRepresentative site: Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Climate12°C · 13.6h daylight · 3 km/h wind8°C · 14.4h daylight · 10 km/h wind · via Silodam
FocusHousing complex9 works in corpus
Architects
  • Ricardo Bofill
  • Winy Maas
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

Notable works

  • Silodam
  • Effenaar
  • Market Hall (Rotterdam)
  • Westerdok Apartments
Typologies
  • housing
  • residential complex
  • collective housing
  • housing
  • building
  • house
  • office
  • landscape
  • residential
  • apartments
  • dabas
Materials
  • concrete
  • ceramic
  • painted stucco
  • glass
  • concrete
  • other
  • brick
Carbon signals

Concrete, Ceramic, and Painted Stucco look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Ceramic
  • Painted Stucco

Concrete, Brick, and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Brick
  • Glass
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
AccessibilityPrivate or restricted3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
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