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Catch LeeMundwiler Architects principal Cara Lee’s Kent State lecture on 10/14!

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Reclaiming Il Muro, Urbino, Italy, 1961.

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'Ships of the Past No.4' 2014

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"Louis Kahn Looking at His Tetrahedral Ceiling in the Yale University Art Gallery, 1953. Gelatin silver print. Image © Lionel Freedman. Yale University Art Gallery Archives Transfer."

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ON BOTS 2006 Hans Van der Riet

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Williamsburg bridge - foggy view from the apartment

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L House in Culver City, California - by leeMundwiler architects

The site is located at the highpoint of an ancient sand dune, eight blocks away from the Pacific Ocean. Piles of sand from excavation are transformed into building material on-site. The sand was cleaned and filled in one pocket of dual-chamber polycarbonate where the second pocket is left filled with air.

This mundane yet durable agri-industrial material, filled with sand and air is a low-tech building façade for the house of sand. Realizing that sand has a remarkable thermal quality to absorb and contain solar heat, our intent was to utilize inherent benefits of earth and nature in order to minimize energy and building material consumption.

Energy collected by the sand-filled chamber is ventilated outward through the hollow second chamber of the polycarbonate before entering the structure . This reflects approximately 30% reduction in energy use for cooling over ASHRAE 90.2 baseline.

Sand panels are of flame resistant polycarbonate material that melts without igniting and the sand released from the melted chambers prevents fire from spreading by smothering nearby areas. This would make these panels an ideal building material for areas with wildfires, as prevalent in California

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Bundesplatz - Government plaza in Bern, Switzerland designed by leeMundwiler architects.

The project was unveiled on 1 August 2004 during the Swss National Day celebration. It is awarded with AIA National Honor Award for Urban Design | AIA California Chapter Merit Award for Urban Design | Nominated for 10 Best Projects in Switzerland.

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