Ply is a wall panel consisting of a solid-wood frame with an undulating birch veneer of 0.4-mm-thick plywood. This new material is so thin that it folds nearly as easily as fabric. Thanks to the wavy surface, the element absorbs sound well. Still in development is a version with built-in lighting and panels thin enough to let light pass through. Panels with an extra backing of sound-absorbing material are another option.
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Redraw from the book Le Corbusier Complete Works 1938-1946.
When on vacation from his job as a designer for BMW in Munich, Stephan Augustin enjoys traveling around Africa. On one such trip seven years ago, he was struck by how many people were in desperate need of water. He noted the huge amounts of energy consumed by desalination and purification plants in Third World countries and learned that an estimated 2.5 billion people on the planet lack consistent supplies of clean drinking water.
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