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

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1975 · Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain

Pedro Ramírez VázquezPedro Ramírez Vázquez

1945 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19751945
PlaceSant Just Desvern, Catalonia, SpainMexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Place contextSant Just Desvern, Catalonia, SpainRepresentative site: Miguel Hidalgo, Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico
Climate17°C · 13.6h daylight · 3 km/h wind23°C · 12.7h daylight · 8 km/h wind · via Museo de Arte Moderno
FocusHousing complex6 works in corpus
Architects
  • Ricardo Bofill
  • Pedro Ramirez Vazquez
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

Notable works

  • Museo de Arte Moderno
  • National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico)
  • Estadio Azteca
  • Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Typologies
  • housing
  • residential complex
  • collective housing
  • museum
  • landscape
  • sports venue
  • church
  • sacred space
  • building
  • house
Materials
  • concrete
  • ceramic
  • painted stucco
  • stone
Carbon signals

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

  • Concrete
  • Ceramic
  • Painted Stucco

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.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
AccessibilityPrivate or restricted4 of 4 recorded works are publicly accessible
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