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1975 · Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain

Walden 7 exterior view

Exterior view of Walden 7 in Sant Just Desvern.

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Walden 7

Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain · Exact work coordinates

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Exterior view of Walden 7 in Sant Just Desvern.

Credit: Zarateman

Rights: CC0 · licensed

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Field	Walden 7 1975 · Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain	Walter Gropius 1919 · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1975	1919
Place	Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain	Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Place context	Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain	Representative site: Alfeld (Leine), Alfeld (Leine), Germany
Climate	23°C · 13.6h daylight · 13 km/h wind	13°C · 14.3h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via Fagus Factory
Focus	Housing complex	9 works in corpus
Architects	Ricardo Bofill	Walter Gropius
Linked context	Bureaus Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura	Notable works Fagus Factory Sommerfeld House 66 Old Church Street, Chelsea Gropius House
Typologies	housing residential complex collective housing	building education house church sacred space museum infrastructure tower
Materials	concrete ceramic painted stucco	glass
Carbon signals	Concrete, Ceramic, and Painted Stucco look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Ceramic Painted Stucco	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.
Accessibility	Private or restricted	5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.