The Habitable Skin

Reinmuth, G; Roesdahl, M

The Habitable Skin

Reinmuth, G

Roesdahl, M

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Publication Type:: Artefact
Citation:: Public Exhibition (indoor and outdoor), 2025
Issue Date:: 2025

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dc.contributor.author	Reinmuth, G https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7234-0168
dc.contributor.author	Roesdahl, M
dc.contributor.editor	Eskerod, T
dc.date.accessioned	2026-03-14T23:37:01Z
dc.date.available	2026-03-14T23:37:01Z
dc.date.issued	2025
dc.identifier.citation	Public Exhibition (indoor and outdoor), 2025
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/194334
dc.description.abstract	The Habitable Skin is an exhibition that reimagines the boundary as architecture’s most critical ecological nexus – not as a line of separation, but as a space of interaction. It asks what it would mean for the skin to be habitable – not only for humans, but for other forms of life? To create a skin that lets in rain, sound, light, breath – offering space for coexistence. To rethink the skin is to rethink the role of architecture itself, not as a shelter from the world but as a medium within it – situated, sensory and capable of coexistence. By centering coexistence as a design principle, we explore this as a possibility but also a responsibility. The Habitable Skin is a living architectural experiment creating interactions and knowledge as species live together. The concept was originally conceptualized and shortlisted for the Danish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2027, in a collaboration between Studio Coquille, TERROIR, Professor Ellen Braae and PhD fellow Taryn Humphrey.
dc.format	Exhibition
dc.language	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Public Exhibition (indoor and outdoor)
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title	The Habitable Skin
dc.type	Artefact
utslib.location.activity	Copenhagen
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design and Society
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design and Society/School of Architecture
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design and Society/School of Architecture/Architecture Discipline
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
pubs.consider-herdc	true
dc.date.updated	2026-03-14T23:36:50Z
pubs.commissioning-body	CAFx Copenhagen

Abstract:

The Habitable Skin is an exhibition that reimagines the boundary as architecture’s most critical ecological nexus – not as a line of separation, but as a space of interaction. It asks what it would mean for the skin to be habitable – not only for humans, but for other forms of life? To create a skin that lets in rain, sound, light, breath – offering space for coexistence. To rethink the skin is to rethink the role of architecture itself, not as a shelter from the world but as a medium within it – situated, sensory and capable of coexistence. By centering coexistence as a design principle, we explore this as a possibility but also a responsibility. The Habitable Skin is a living architectural experiment creating interactions and knowledge as species live together. The concept was originally conceptualized and shortlisted for the Danish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2027, in a collaboration between Studio Coquille, TERROIR, Professor Ellen Braae and PhD fellow Taryn Humphrey.

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