Shower Curtain Wall examines how certain
elements in architecture seem to absorb most of the scholarly focus, while others
remain at the fringes of architecture discourse. The project takes
as its example the mostly ignored shower curtain in opposition to the disciplinary
all-time-favorite, the glass curtain wall. Their oppositional states at both
ends of the spectrum of architectural discourse are mirrored in their qualities: keeping
water in vs. keeping it out, soft vs. hard, private vs. public, interior vs.
exterior.
The
project attempts to reconcile such oppositions through a caress of the shower
curtain against the glazed surface of the curtain wall.