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1992 · Naoshima, Naoshima, Japan

Benesse House image

Art museum and hotel in Naoshima, Japan

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Benesse House

Naoshima, Naoshima, Japan · Exact work coordinates

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Art museum and hotel in Naoshima, Japan

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Comparison

Field	Benesse House 1992 · Naoshima, Naoshima, Japan	Walter Gropius 1919 · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1992	1919
Place	Naoshima, Naoshima, Japan	Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Place context	Naoshima, Naoshima, Japan	Representative site: Alfeld (Leine), Alfeld (Leine), Germany
Climate	14°C · 13.2h daylight · 6 km/h wind	14°C · 14.1h daylight · 5 km/h wind · via Fagus Factory
Focus	Museum	9 works in corpus
Architects	Tadao Ando	Walter Gropius
Linked context	Bureaus Tadao Ando Architect & Associates	Notable works Fagus Factory Sommerfeld House 66 Old Church Street, Chelsea Gropius House
Typologies	museum gallery house hospitality	building education house church sacred space museum infrastructure tower
Materials	Not recorded yet.	glass
Carbon signals	museum, gallery, house, and hospitality gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	Tadao Ando: Complete Works	No linked books yet.