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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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1930 · Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Richard Meier & Partners ArchitectsRichard Meier & Partners Architects

1963 · New York, New York, United States

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19301963
PlaceMontevideo, Montevideo Department, UruguayNew York, New York, United States
Place contextMontevideo, Montevideo Department, UruguayRepresentative site: Frankfurt-Süd, Frankfurt-Süd, Germany
Climate19°C · 11.0h daylight · 13 km/h wind11°C · 14.1h daylight · 7 km/h wind · via Museum Angewandte Kunst
FocusHouse museum21 works in corpus
Architects
  • Julio Vilamajo
  • Richard Meier
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Julio Vilamajo

Notable works

  • Museum Angewandte Kunst
  • Des Moines Art Center
  • Frederick J. Smith House
  • J. Paul Getty Museum
Typologies
  • house
  • museum
  • residence
  • museum
  • house
  • campus building
  • performance venue
  • temple
  • sacred space
  • civic building
  • landscape
Materials
  • masonry
  • stucco
  • timber
  • adobe
  • glass
  • stone
Carbon signals

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

  • Brick
  • Stucco

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

  • Adobe
  • Glass
  • Stone
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.
  • 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 accessible11 of 11 recorded works are publicly accessible
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