The Habitable Skin

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.