ISOLÉE, A CONCEPT FOR A SELF-SUFFICIENT RETREAT, AIMS TO APPLY "PRODUCT DESIGN ETHOS" TO ARCHITECTURE.
Dutch architect Frank Tjepkema is annoyed with the crudeness of the average house. “The cars we drive, the computers and tablets we use, the smartphones--all sophisticated, aesthetically sound objects,” he tells FRAME magazine. “And then we go home, where we’re surrounded by a stack of bricks." His gripe is legitimate: Why is commercial architecture so far behind, say, the automotive industry in terms of adopting technological innovations?
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