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Amdavad ni Gufa in Ahmedabad, India

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Amdavad ni Gufa

1995 · Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India

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Art gallery in India

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Amdavad ni GufaAmdavad ni Gufa

1995 · Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India

Shigeru Ban ArchitectsShigeru Ban Architects

1985 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19951985
PlaceAhmedabad, Ahmedabad, IndiaTokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Place contextAhmedabad, Ahmedabad, IndiaRepresentative site: Onagawa, Onagawa, Japan
Climate39°C · 12.8h daylight · 13 km/h wind12°C · 13.4h daylight · 7 km/h wind · via Onagawa Station
FocusArchitecture9 works in corpus
Architects
  • Balkrishna Doshi
  • Shigeru Ban
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Vastu-Shilpa Consultants

Notable works

  • Onagawa Station
  • Paper Dome
  • Centre Pompidou-Metz
  • Cardboard Cathedral
Typologies
  • gallery
  • performance venue
  • church
  • sacred space
  • museum
  • cathedral
  • religious building
  • temporary architecture
  • civic building
Materials
  • tile
  • cardboard
  • timber
  • polycarbonate
  • glass
Carbon signals

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

  • Tile

Cardboard, Glass, and Polycarbonate look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Cardboard
  • Glass
  • Polycarbonate
Lower-carbon levers
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible8 of 8 recorded works are publicly accessible
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