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1943 · Pampulha, Pampulha, Brazil

Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, Pampulha image

Church in Minas Gerais, Brazil

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Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, Pampulha

Pampulha, Pampulha, Brazil · Exact work coordinates

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Church in Minas Gerais, Brazil

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Field	Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, Pampulha 1943 · Pampulha, Pampulha, Brazil	Walter Gropius 1919 · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1943	1919
Place	Pampulha, Pampulha, Brazil	Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Place context	Avenida Otacílio Negrão de Lima, São Luiz, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil	Representative site: Hannoversche Straße, Alfeld (Leine), Niedersachsen, Deutschland
Climate	23°C · 11.6h daylight · 3 km/h wind	7°C · 14.2h daylight · 13 km/h wind · via Fagus Factory
Focus	Sacred building	9 works in corpus
Architects	Oscar Niemeyer	Walter Gropius
Linked context	Bureaus Oscar Niemeyer	Notable works Fagus Factory Sommerfeld House 66 Old Church Street, Chelsea Gropius House
Typologies	church sacred space chapel	building education house church sacred space museum infrastructure tower
Materials	concrete	glass
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass
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.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.