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2001 · Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia

Virgilio Barco Library image

Seed wave 46 image for Virgilio Barco Library.

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Virgilio Barco Library

Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia · Exact work coordinates

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Seed wave 46 image for Virgilio Barco Library.

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Field	Virgilio Barco Library 2001 · Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia	Pier Luigi Nervi 1932 · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2001	1932
Place	Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia	Rome, Lazio, Italy
Place context	Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia	Representative site: Turin, Turin, Italy
Climate	Climate unavailable	Climate unavailable · via Torino Esposizioni
Focus	Library	5 works in corpus
Architects	Rogelio Salmona Rogelio Salmona	Pier Luigi Nervi
Linked context	Bureaus Rogelio Salmona	Notable works Torino Esposizioni Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (San Francisco) Norfolk Scope Paul VI Audience Hall
Typologies	library civic building	building church sacred space cathedral education campus building performance venue landscape
Materials	brick	concrete
Carbon signals	Brick look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Brick	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.