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1951 · Sao Paulo, Brazil

Casa de Vidro exterior view

Exterior view of Casa de Vidro in Morumbi, Sao Paulo.

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Casa de Vidro

Sao Paulo, Brazil · Exact work coordinates

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Exterior view of Casa de Vidro in Morumbi, Sao Paulo.

Credit: PCPetrachini

Rights: CC BY-SA 4.0 · licensed

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Field	Casa de Vidro 1951 · Sao Paulo, Brazil	Moriyama Teshima Architects 1958 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1951	1958
Place	Sao Paulo, Brazil	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Place context	Sao Paulo, Brazil	Representative site: Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Climate	16°C · 11.4h daylight · 10 km/h wind	-4°C · 13.8h daylight · 0 km/h wind · via Canadian War Museum
Focus	House	8 works in corpus
Architects	Lina Bo Bardi	Raymond Moriyama
Linked context	Bureaus Studio Lina Bo Bardi	Notable works Canadian War Museum Ontario Science Centre William G. Davis Building Toronto Reference Library
Typologies	residence house	museum library house performance venue education campus building hospitality office
Materials	glass concrete steel	glass
Carbon signals	Concrete, Steel, and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Steel Glass	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. Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	7 of 7 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	Lina Bo Bardi	No linked books yet.