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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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1975 · Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain

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1995 · Tokyo, Japan

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19751995
PlaceSant Just Desvern, Catalonia, SpainTokyo, Japan
Place contextSant Just Desvern, Catalonia, SpainRepresentative site: Hitachi, Hitachi, Japan
Climate22°C · 13.6h daylight · 11 km/h wind14°C · 13.4h daylight · 3 km/h wind · via Hitachi Station
FocusHousing complex11 works in corpus
Architects
  • Ricardo Bofill
  • Kazuyo Sejima
  • Ryue Nishizawa
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

Notable works

  • Hitachi Station
  • New Museum
  • 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
  • Towada Art Center
Typologies
  • housing
  • residential complex
  • collective housing
  • performance venue
  • museum
  • cultural building
  • gallery
  • university building
  • learning center
  • academic building
  • landscape
Materials
  • concrete
  • ceramic
  • painted stucco
  • glass
  • aluminum
  • steel
  • concrete
  • timber
Carbon signals

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

  • Concrete
  • Ceramic
  • Painted Stucco

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

  • Aluminum
  • Concrete
  • Steel
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.
  • 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.
AccessibilityPrivate or restricted10 of 10 recorded works are publicly accessible
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