Sick waters were not only the result of grey and black water produced, drained after the shower, collected in the sewage system, and then used by the citizens.

Zurich is a city where the body is celebrated as a means for social bathing activities. The perseverance of the bathing culture despite the privatization of the shower, has prevented the body from becoming a taboo within society. The boundary between what is public and what is private is pushed in a way that allows citizens to freely express their social and hygienic basic needs.

Showering in the contemporary city is a habitual and almost scheduled event. It has become so integrated within our daily routines that it has become an essential portion of the day or even night without our direct awareness or consciousness

Seebad Enge is the latest public shower to be constructed on the Lake Zurich. It is the public bath to witness the transformation of the shower space into a more private space. It was the end of a shower boom era; a time when Zurich has put a stop to an increasing density of city showers and has shifted towards a greater use of private showers.

urban showers

Zurich, the shower city, has strived to maintain the shower space as a public activity and social event as public bathing functionally served the bodies and the minds of its people. Bathing in a 21st century river that runs through the infrastructure of a contemporary city is quite rare to find. The Zurich city shower is a space that contributes to the city as much as it is shaped and designed by its urban parameters

The City of Zurich is a shower in its purest natural form. It is a shower consisting of a series of existing natural water bodies; rivers, glaciers, and a lake. It is the product of geologically historical events that contributed to the formation of a natural shower. The City Shower.

The shower is a practice. The shower is also a space. A space occupied by the citizen through time. The shower is a site specific activity that involves the practice of cleansing within a distinctively designed and dedicated space. The verb to shower has preceded the shower as a noun along the times of human existence and urban development.