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1258 · Chorin, Chorin, Germany

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Former abbey in Brandenburg, Germany

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Chorin Abbey

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Former abbey in Brandenburg, Germany

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Field	Chorin Abbey 1258 · Chorin, Chorin, Germany	Walter Gropius 1919 · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1258	1919
Place	Chorin, Chorin, Germany	Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Place context	Chorin, Chorin, Germany	Representative site: Alfeld (Leine), Alfeld (Leine), Germany
Climate	8°C · 14.3h daylight · 11 km/h wind	6°C · 14.2h daylight · 17 km/h wind · via Fagus Factory
Focus	Architecture	9 works in corpus
Architects	Karl Friedrich Schinkel	Walter Gropius
Linked context	Bureaus Karl Friedrich Schinkel	Notable works Fagus Factory Sommerfeld House 66 Old Church Street, Chelsea Gropius House
Typologies	building	building education house church sacred space museum infrastructure tower
Materials	brick	glass
Carbon signals	Brick look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Brick	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass
Lower-carbon levers	Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.