Transcription: The Carpenter House in Texas is an example of what Pliny Fisk III, co-director of the Center for Maximum Building Potential, calls biometric planning. Fisk has analyzed natural resources and vernacular technologies in similar ecological regions of the world, and has invented a new construction technique suited to Texas. It is an attempt to totally rethink how we build and dwell in places, a model of critical process rather than style. Fisk and his collaborators The collaborators have designed not just one 1,200 square foot house, but a house that can grow in several ways over time and at each ...
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