Dancing Structure

There is a new building in Berlin, finished in 2012, that brings the discussions of the last years to a crucial point. Is it innovative or is it just a playful interpreation of the good old facade logic of contemporary investment architecture? During my 72 hours in the dungeon of our flat, training for my Method Acting class by imitating the protagonist of the film Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock, most of my daily views got evaluated. The Tour Total is what I see, when I take a shower. It is a very small perspective, that makes this view possible. It is a crazy coincidence that Tour Total was build right in the axes of this view. The facade is geometrical structured. By this, the sunlight is producing shadows on the vertical lines, that are changing with the movement of the earth. Slowly but constantly, the vertical lines appear almost as a dancing structure. Maybe Method Acting has already broken out, it is no longer a tradition of acting, it became a conceptual strategy even in architecture. The building acts as a dancer. A little bit like the sunlight-movement of the early 20th century: dancing naked and expressive in nature. Tour Total is not an office block, and it is also not an postfordian monument. Tour Total is a dislocation, Tour Total is Monte Veritá. (By the way: when and who has invented the shower? I know a lot about the escalator, and when is was first presented, buy what about the shower?)