| Type | work | bureau |
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| Year / years | 2017 | 1955 |
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| Place | Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France | Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India |
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| Place context | Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France | Representative site: Ahmedabad district, Ahmedabad district, India |
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| Climate | 17°C · 13.7h daylight · 8 km/h wind | 40°C · 12.8h daylight · 11 km/h wind · via Tagore Memorial Hall |
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| Focus | Housing renovation | 5 works in corpus |
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| Architects | - Anne Lacaton
- Jean-Philippe Vassal
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| Linked context | Bureaus | Notable works - Tagore Memorial Hall
- Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
- Aranya Low Cost Housing
- Amdavad ni Gufa
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| Typologies | - housing
- renovation
- social housing
| - memorial
- education
- campus building
- institutional building
- housing
- social housing
- incremental urbanism
- gallery
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| Materials | - concrete
- glass
- polycarbonate
| - stone
- concrete
- landscape
- brick
- tile
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| Carbon signals | Concrete, Glass, and Polycarbonate look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. - Concrete
- Glass
- Polycarbonate
| Concrete, Brick, and Landscape look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. |
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| Lower-carbon levers | - 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.
- Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
| - Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
- Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
- Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
- Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
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| Accessibility | Private or restricted | 4 of 4 recorded works are publicly accessible |
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