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1894 · Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

Hôtel Otlet image

Historic Art Nouveau house in Brussels, Belgium

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Hôtel Otlet

Brussels, Brussels, Belgium · Exact work coordinates

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Historic Art Nouveau house in Brussels, Belgium

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Comparison

Field	Hôtel Otlet 1894 · Brussels, Brussels, Belgium	SEPRA 1936 · Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1894	1936
Place	Brussels, Brussels, Belgium	Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Place context	Brussels, Brussels, Belgium	Representative site: Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Climate	11°C · 14.1h daylight · 9 km/h wind	20°C · 11.1h daylight · 17 km/h wind · via Bank of London and South America building
Focus	House	1 works in corpus
Architects	Henry van de Velde	Clorindo Testa
Linked context	Bureaus Atelier Henry van de Velde	Notable works Bank of London and South America building
Typologies	house	office building bank commercial building
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete glass
Carbon signals	house gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Concrete and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Glass
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.