Wren House Studio : Suburban Follies : Structures for the Residential Landscape : 1994

Originally commissioned as self-assembly garden structures, these suburban follies included a viewing tower, a shower enclosure, and a pavilion.

All structures were seen as readily manufacturable from stock wood sections and represented a development of earlier proposals for a commercial manufacturer.

The tower was designed as an articulating structure with fold-down platforms suggesting states of repose and movement, i.e., standing, leaning, sitting or jumping. The shower enclosure was designed with a garden water storage tank shower filled with a garden hose.

The inversion of urban/suburban imagery was the conceptual backbone for the project e.g., shower/watertank, viewing tower/skyscraper as implied in the shadows.

The constructions were presented in drawings and models in the Suburban Follies exhibition, curated by Robert Reuter at Gallery North in Setauket, New York.

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