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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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Vilamajo House MuseumVilamajo House Museum

1930 · Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Shigeru Ban ArchitectsShigeru Ban Architects

1985 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19301985
PlaceMontevideo, Montevideo Department, UruguayTokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Place contextMontevideo, Montevideo Department, UruguayRepresentative site: Onagawa, Onagawa, Japan
Climate19°C · 11.0h daylight · 12 km/h wind15°C · 13.4h daylight · 5 km/h wind · via Onagawa Station
FocusHouse museum9 works in corpus
Architects
  • Julio Vilamajo
  • Shigeru Ban
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Julio Vilamajo

Notable works

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

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

  • Brick
  • Stucco

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

  • Cardboard
  • Glass
  • Polycarbonate
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.
  • 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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