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Casa Curutchet

1955 · La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

24°C · 11.1h daylight · 5 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: 24°C · 11.1h daylight · 5 km/h wind

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Casa Curutchet

1955 · La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Vastu-Shilpa ConsultantsVastu-Shilpa Consultants

1955 · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19551955
PlaceLa Plata, Buenos Aires Province, ArgentinaAhmedabad, Gujarat, India
Place contextLa Plata, Buenos Aires Province, ArgentinaRepresentative site: Ahmedabad district, Ahmedabad district, India
Climate24°C · 11.1h daylight · 5 km/h wind27°C · 12.8h daylight · 4 km/h wind · via Tagore Memorial Hall
FocusHouse-clinic5 works in corpus
Architects

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  • Balkrishna Doshi
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Notable works

  • Tagore Memorial Hall
  • Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
  • Aranya Low Cost Housing
  • Amdavad ni Gufa
Typologies
  • house
  • modernism
  • residential building
  • memorial
  • education
  • campus building
  • institutional building
  • housing
  • social housing
  • incremental urbanism
  • gallery
Materials
  • concrete
  • glass
  • stone
  • concrete
  • landscape
  • brick
  • tile
Carbon signals

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

  • Concrete
  • Glass

Concrete, Brick, and Landscape look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Brick
  • Landscape
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.
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • 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.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible4 of 4 recorded works are publicly accessible
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