Design duo Kiki & Joost has created a collection of solar panels for MyEnergySkin, a Dutch company that wants to make products attractive enough to cover building facades.
Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk ? a couple who make work both together and separately ? produced eight tile designs for MyEnergySkin.
There are two solar roof tiles and six solar facade tiles, all inspired by textures from nature or the built environment.
Kiki & Joost designed the range of solar panels for MyEnergySkin
For the roof tiles, Kiki & Joost chose to emulate copper and iron, with a mottled pattern and a reflective finish that they say glitters "jewel-like" in the light.
For the facade tiles, they looked to a mix of sources. One, titled Paint, appears to have been streaked by a paintbrush. The collection includes a panel named Paint
Another, Rain, has an oxidised effect, while Tudor has a muddy brickwork pattern, and Leaves gives the impression that it is in the shadow of foliage.

The Aquarel tile is softly washed with warm colour, while the Scratch tile looks as if it has weathered a beating.
Tudor is another panel in the collection
Kiki & Joost said that the facade tiles, in particular, excite them, because building facades had typically been overlooked as a site for solar architecture.
They hope that this might change with the availability of tiles that are designed to be aesthetically pleasing and to fit with the urban landscape.
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