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2001 · Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia

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Virgilio Barco Library

Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia · Exact work coordinates

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Field	Virgilio Barco Library 2001 · Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia	Souto de Moura Arquitectos 1980 · Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2001	1980
Place	Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia	Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Place context	Bogota, Bogota Capital District, Colombia	Representative site: Real, Dume e Semelhe, Real, Dume e Semelhe, Portugal
Climate	16°C · 12.2h daylight · 13 km/h wind	20°C · 13.6h daylight · 4 km/h wind · via Estádio Municipal de Braga
Focus	Library	3 works in corpus
Architects	Rogelio Salmona Rogelio Salmona	Eduardo Souto de Moura
Linked context	Bureaus Rogelio Salmona	Notable works Estádio Municipal de Braga Casa das Historias Paula Rego Trindade station (Porto Metro)
Typologies	library civic building	sports venue museum art museum cultural building civic building
Materials	brick	concrete
Carbon signals	Brick look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Brick	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.