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Exterior view of Walden 7 in Sant Just Desvern, showing the red modular housing mass and stacked terraces.

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Walden 7

1975 · Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain

Walden 7 exterior view

Exterior view of Walden 7 in Sant Just Desvern.

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Walden 7Walden 7

1975 · Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain

William EmersonWilliam Emerson

1878 · Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19751878
PlaceSant Just Desvern, Catalonia, SpainKolkata, West Bengal, India
Place contextSant Just Desvern, Catalonia, SpainRepresentative site: Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Climate20°C · 13.5h daylight · 7 km/h wind29°C · 12.7h daylight · 5 km/h wind · via Crawford Market
FocusHousing complex4 works in corpus
Architects
  • Ricardo Bofill
  • William Emerson
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

Notable works

  • Crawford Market
  • St Mary the Virgin, Brighton
  • Victoria Memorial, Kolkata
  • All Saints Cathedral, Prayagraj
Typologies
  • housing
  • residential complex
  • collective housing
  • building
  • church
  • sacred space
  • museum
  • memorial
  • landscape
  • cathedral
Materials
  • concrete
  • ceramic
  • painted stucco
  • brick
  • stone
Carbon signals

Concrete, Ceramic, and Painted Stucco look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Ceramic
  • Painted Stucco

Brick and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Brick
  • Stone
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.
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
AccessibilityPrivate or restricted3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
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