Duzan Doepel and Eline Strijkers transform sustainable into desirable with, among other projects, a garage-turned house and a green tequila distillery. Salud!
Doepel Strijkers Architects is revving up to conquer the world, starting with the first-ever sustainable, socially minded, zero-waste tequila factory. Organic tequila, mind you. Doepel Strijkers is the Rotterdam-based firm of architect Duzan Doepel (born in South Africa in 1971) and interior architect Eline Strijkers (born in the Netherlands in 1969). They met while working at MVRDV in the 1990s, and in 2007 joined forces. They now employ nine people. Both have won the AM NAI Public Prize for young talent and a Dutch Design Award. Both also teach, he as a lecturer on sustainable architecture and urbanism at the Research Institute for Sustainable Solutions and she at the Academy of Architecture.
So what is their take on the generic term “sustainability”? “We want to make sustainability into business as usual, but also link it to top design. In order to get mass culture behind you, you have to create an element of desire. It has to look good,” says Doepel. “In light of the resource and energy crises we are facing, sustainability has to be about reconfiguring and repurposing the buildings we already have.”
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