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Casa Curutchet

1955 · La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

23°C · 11.0h daylight · 21 km/h wind

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Casa Curutchet

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

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La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Climate: 23°C · 11.0h daylight · 21 km/h wind

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Casa Curutchet

1955 · La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Shigeru Ban ArchitectsShigeru Ban Architects

1985 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19551985
PlaceLa Plata, Buenos Aires Province, ArgentinaTokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Place contextLa Plata, Buenos Aires Province, ArgentinaRepresentative site: Onagawa, Onagawa, Japan
Climate23°C · 11.0h daylight · 21 km/h wind11°C · 13.4h daylight · 7 km/h wind · via Onagawa Station
FocusHouse-clinic9 works in corpus
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  • Shigeru Ban
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Notable works

  • Onagawa Station
  • Paper Dome
  • Centre Pompidou-Metz
  • Cardboard Cathedral
Typologies
  • house
  • modernism
  • residential building
  • performance venue
  • church
  • sacred space
  • museum
  • cathedral
  • religious building
  • temporary architecture
  • civic building
Materials
  • concrete
  • glass
  • cardboard
  • timber
  • polycarbonate
  • glass
Carbon signals

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

  • Concrete
  • Glass

Cardboard, Glass, and Polycarbonate look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Cardboard
  • Glass
  • Polycarbonate
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.
  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible8 of 8 recorded works are publicly accessible
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