Fifteen have been built. There are some apartments and lofts, but for the most part it's the house. One house in the exhibit has a curtain around its glass exterior to create privacy when drawn and reveal the interior when open. Architect Shigeru Ban, who designed the Curtain Wall House in Tokyo for a Japanese photographer and his family, used traditional Japanese sliding screens as inspiration for the modern curtain. In the Holley Loft in New York, architects Thomas Hanrahan and Victoria Meyers have worked to keep the space as open as possible, without sacrificing the sense of specified areas.
Movable walls are part of the treatment here.
It's more like a bathing space, it's more sensual, it's more attractive, it's more of a room. And it's only very minimally screened from the public areas by a kind of floating sheet of frosted glass. The central room in their loft is a trading room and is visible from various places. Ticker screens are placed in other parts of the house, too. One hangs over the bathtub.