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1921 · Nagatoro, Nagatoro, Japan

Saitama Museum of Natural History image

Museum in Nagatoro, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

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Saitama Museum of Natural History

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Museum in Nagatoro, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

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Field	Saitama Museum of Natural History 1921 · Nagatoro, Nagatoro, Japan	Atelier Peter Zumthor 1979 · Haldenstein, Graubunden, Switzerland
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1921	1979
Place	Nagatoro, Nagatoro, Japan	Haldenstein, Graubunden, Switzerland
Place context	Nagatoro, Nagatoro, Japan	Representative site: Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland
Climate	15°C · 13.3h daylight · 4 km/h wind	4°C · 13.9h daylight · 5 km/h wind · via Therme Vals
Focus	Museum	2 works in corpus
Architects	Kunio Maekawa	Peter Zumthor
Linked context	Bureaus Mayekawa Associates	Notable works Therme Vals Bruder Klaus Field Chapel
Typologies	museum gallery	bathhouse hospitality landscape chapel religious building
Materials	Not recorded yet.	quartzite concrete water rammed concrete timber
Carbon signals	museum and gallery gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Concrete, Concrete, and Quartzite look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Concrete Quartzite
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	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. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	Thinking Architecture