Shelter

In The Shelter, the human body modify the architecture, as opposed adapting to it. The body exerts a constraint, a pressure that modifies the architecture, as in the Performative Sculptures series where the human body alters the architecture itself. Erwin Wurm believes that everything must be reconsidered according to our human standards and considered (considers?) that homes and shelters are our third skin, explaining that “The house isolates us from the outside world as the skin and the body do. It protects us, hides us, and locks us in a safe room, in a safe space. […] The history of our world shows—even if the balance between nature and culture seems to have failed—that there have always been shelters with walls. Walls were an important instrument to gather ideas and a certain coherence between our world, our environment and ourselves.”