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Green Building (MIT) in Cambridge, United States

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Green Building (MIT)

1964 · Cambridge, Cambridge, United States

Green Building (MIT) image

Research labs, education in Massachusetts, US

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Green Building (MIT)

Cambridge, Cambridge, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Green Building (MIT)Green Building (MIT)

1964 · Cambridge, Cambridge, United States

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1995 · Tokyo, Japan

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19641995
PlaceCambridge, Cambridge, United StatesTokyo, Japan
Place contextCambridge, Cambridge, United StatesRepresentative site: Hitachi, Hitachi, Japan
Climate2°C · 13.6h daylight · 10 km/h wind15°C · 13.3h daylight · 6 km/h wind · via Hitachi Station
FocusHouse11 works in corpus
Architects
  • I. M. Pei
  • Kazuyo Sejima
  • Ryue Nishizawa
Linked context

Bureaus

  • I. M. Pei & Partners

Notable works

  • Hitachi Station
  • New Museum
  • 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
  • Towada Art Center
Typologies
  • house
  • infrastructure
  • performance venue
  • museum
  • cultural building
  • gallery
  • university building
  • learning center
  • academic building
  • landscape
Materials
  • earth
  • glass
  • aluminum
  • steel
  • concrete
  • timber
Carbon signals

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

  • Earth

Aluminum, Concrete, and Steel look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Aluminum
  • Concrete
  • Steel
Lower-carbon levers
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Focus on recycled content, lighter assemblies, and careful facade-specification choices.
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityAccess not recorded10 of 10 recorded works are publicly accessible
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