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Casa Curutchet

1955 · La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

19°C · 11.0h daylight · 11 km/h wind

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Casa Curutchet

La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina · City-level coordinates only

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Casa Curutchet

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La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Climate: 19°C · 11.0h daylight · 11 km/h wind

Mapping: City-level coordinates only

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Casa Curutchet

1955 · La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Pekka VapaavuoriPekka Vapaavuori

1994 · Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19551994
PlaceLa Plata, Buenos Aires Province, ArgentinaTurku, Southwest Finland, Finland
Place contextLa Plata, Buenos Aires Province, ArgentinaRepresentative site: Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Climate19°C · 11.0h daylight · 11 km/h wind13°C · 15.0h daylight · 13 km/h wind · via Kumu Art Museum
FocusHouse-clinic1 works in corpus
Architects

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  • Pekka Vapaavuori
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Notable works

  • Kumu Art Museum
Typologies
  • house
  • modernism
  • residential building
  • museum
  • art museum
  • cultural building
Materials
  • concrete
  • glass
  • limestone
  • glass
  • copper
Carbon signals

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

  • Concrete
  • Glass

Copper, Glass, and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Copper
  • Glass
  • Stone
Lower-carbon levers
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • 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.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
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