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Salk Institute

1959-1965 · La Jolla, California, United States

La Jolla, California, United States

20°C · 13.1h daylight · 14 km/h wind

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Salk Institute

La Jolla, California, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Salk Institute

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La Jolla, California, United States

Climate: 20°C · 13.1h daylight · 14 km/h wind

Mapping: Exact work coordinates

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Salk Institute

1959-1965 · La Jolla, California, United States

Walter GropiusWalter Gropius

1919 · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Typeworkbureau
Year / years1959-19651919
PlaceLa Jolla, California, United StatesBerlin, Berlin, Germany
Place contextLa Jolla, California, United StatesRepresentative site: Alfeld (Leine), Alfeld (Leine), Germany
Climate20°C · 13.1h daylight · 14 km/h wind7°C · 14.2h daylight · 11 km/h wind · via Fagus Factory
FocusResearch institute9 works in corpus
Architects
  • Louis Kahn
  • Walter Gropius
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Louis Kahn

Notable works

  • Fagus Factory
  • Sommerfeld House
  • 66 Old Church Street, Chelsea
  • Gropius House
Typologies
  • institutional building
  • research campus
  • laboratory
  • building
  • education
  • house
  • church
  • sacred space
  • museum
  • infrastructure
  • tower
Materials
  • concrete
  • teak
  • travertine
  • glass
Carbon signals

Concrete, Teak, and Travertine look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Teak
  • Travertine

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.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
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