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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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Walden 7

Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain · Exact work coordinates

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Walden 7Walden 7

1975 · Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain

Piet BlomPiet Blom

1960 · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19751960
PlaceSant Just Desvern, Catalonia, SpainAmsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Place contextCarrer de la Creu, Sant Just Desvern, Catalunya, EspañaRepresentative site: Gedempte Zuiderdiep, Centrum, Binnenstad-zuid, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
Climate20°C · 13.7h daylight · 23 km/h wind14°C · 14.5h daylight · 20 km/h wind · via Academie Minerva
FocusHousing complex4 works in corpus
Architects
  • Ricardo Bofill
  • Piet Blom
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

Notable works

  • Academie Minerva
  • Cube houses
  • Cube house
  • Theater 't Speelhuis
Typologies
  • housing
  • residential complex
  • collective housing
  • building
  • housing
  • residential
  • urban experiment
  • dabas
  • houses
  • 3d modeling
  • performance venue
Materials
  • concrete
  • ceramic
  • painted stucco
  • concrete
  • timber
Carbon signals

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

  • Concrete
  • Ceramic
  • Painted Stucco

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

  • Concrete
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.
  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
AccessibilityPrivate or restricted2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
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