ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 392
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Fri Aug 15 12:19:07 PDT 2008
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DESERT MUSEUMS IN PLATINUM
by Leigh Christy
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Another building type shattered the dual-glazed, low-e
glass ceiling in April 2008 when the U.S. Green Building
Council first awarded LEED Platinum certification to a
museum complex.
Appropriately named, the Water + Life Museums include
the Center for Water Education and the Western Center
for Archaeology and Paleontology. Paradoxically sited,
the 17-acre (seven-hectare) campus sits confidently
beneath the earthen dams of Diamond Valley Lake,
Southern California's largest man-made reservoir, on
land owned by the Metropolitan Water District of
Southern California (MWD) on the outskirts of Hemet.
The crenellated steel-clad towers of the twin museums
unite to create an elongated front facade. Tucked behind
are plaster boxes of laboratories, classrooms, offices,
central plant, and gift shop. The buildings frame and
partially shade the central hardscape plaza with their
perforated-steel-slatted loggias and translucent
solar-panel caps. Beyond the plaza radiate a parking lot
and educational gardens.
Formally referencing California's towering infrastructure
projects, the monumental, 70,000-square-foot (6,500-square-
meter) complex feels more indigenous to this desert landscape
than the model-home developments springing up throughout the
area - but it's still in a desert. Add museum-grade curatorial
requirements and the question arises: how did the team led by
Los Angeles-based Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build achieve its
53 LEED credits?
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on three acres (1.2 hectares) in Millennium Park, a part
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