Outdoor curtains – textile façade

The Cross House by architect Daisy Jacobs in ARGE with Kollektiv Marudo is located in Schänis (CH). It is situated in the hill side with an incredible view over the valley and towards the mountains with an 80 cm wide arcade one can walk through the house feeling the connections of light and darkness, earth and sky, narrowness and space.

I was commissioned for an art & architecture contribution that resulted in a permanent textile installation. The woven outdoor curtain spans around 25 m horizontally and integrates into the façade bringing soft, body connections into the architecture. The curtains can be draped horizontally and vertically being always slightly in movement with the weather.
The colour gradially moves from the areas used by night in a dark green, blue, purple towards the day areas with lighter colours in grey, ochre and purple.

Photos: Marie Schumann

One of the five openings with vertical draping and the technical colour scheme drawing showing the "whole canvas".

Scupltural draping test with different positions and the text "The Origin of Weaving" by Cecilia Vicuña (New and Selected Poems).

Arcade with opening to the ceiling and view of the colour gradient on a different opening in darker colours.

© Marie Schumann