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Vilamajo House Museum in Montevideo, Uruguay

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Vilamajo House Museum

1930 · Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

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Seed wave 45 image for the Vilamajo House Museum.

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Vilamajo House Museum

Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay · Exact work coordinates

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Vilamajo House MuseumVilamajo House Museum

1930 · Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Gunnar BirkertsGunnar Birkerts

1950-2017 · Detroit, Michigan, United States

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19301950-2017
PlaceMontevideo, Montevideo Department, UruguayDetroit, Michigan, United States
Place contextMontevideo, Montevideo Department, UruguayRepresentative site: Detroit, Detroit, United States
Climate19°C · 11.0h daylight · 13 km/h wind15°C · 13.7h daylight · 9 km/h wind · via 1300 Lafayette East Cooperative
FocusHouse museum5 works in corpus
Architects
  • Julio Vilamajo
  • Gunnar Birkerts
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Julio Vilamajo

Notable works

  • 1300 Lafayette East Cooperative
  • Domino's Farms
  • National Library of Latvia
  • Domino's
Typologies
  • house
  • museum
  • residence
  • housing
  • performance venue
  • landscape
  • education
  • campus building
  • house
  • tower
  • library
Materials
  • masonry
  • stucco
  • timber
  • glass
  • steel
Carbon signals

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

  • Brick
  • Stucco

Steel and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Steel
  • Glass
Lower-carbon levers
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
  • 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.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
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