Instead of purchasing a complete shower unit, the walls of the room or extra stud walls can be constructed to house a shower cubicle.
The shower cubicle murder of Marion in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho remains probably the most famous shower scene in the history of American cinema.
Glass Reinforced Polymer began to be used in shower cubicles from the early 1990s to counter the maintenance costs of the traditional tile and tray method.
The idea of a collapsible shower cubicle has gained popularity with Per Mollerup's book “Collapsible: The Genius of Space-saving Design”.