Suburban Follies : Structures for the residential landscape : 1994
The Suburban Follies exhibition, curated by Robert Reuter at Gallery North in Setauket, New York, presented proposals for residential structures designed as follies.
Several structures were proposed including the tower, the shower and the 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 is an articulating structure with fold down platforms suggesting states of repose and movement, i.e standing, leaning, sitting or jumping.
The shower was designed as a garden water storage tank shower filled from a hose.
The pavilion proposed a gathering place that could be both public or private.
The inversion of urban/suburban imagery was the conceptual backbone for the project.