Collective Home

By: annebloom

Feb 06 2010

Category: research, text

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” I didn’t live in the house; I just stayed there for a few nights. But sometimes a brief visit reveals what we mean when we talk about ‘Home’. For someone like me, who was new in town, the house on it’s improbable rock represented new possibilities.” [p.12]

“When houses come undone is usually through a vague combination of disrepair and memory lapse. [p.13]

“For how we fasten ourselves – our traditions and our values – to the places we live in has all the improbability and vulnerability of the yellow house that was once fastened to its unlikely rock.” [p. 13]

In “Small houses for the Next Century” Duo Dickinson said that family structure today is fragmenting into a variety of house holds that include single parent homes, multigenerational home, home that contain offices, homes that are harbor empty nesters, home for unrelated individuals living together as a family…

NOSTALGIA-> “return migration” (social science)
-> who moved to large urban areas after college, there is a new appeal it seems, in returning to the smaller home towns where they were raised.
-> sense of community
-> extended family (or even just the memory of it)

“Many of us do need a little history in our lives” (1994 survey conducted by Metropolis Magazine)

HOME AND SPACES

morphing spaces:
-> Privacy is no longer necessarily something associated with place -> but is about activity or time.
-> I crowded cities privacy cannot be defined by physical distance, but it is by controlling sound.

bedroom: intersection of solitude and fantasy
kitchen: nourishment (physical and psychological)
living room: design + personality / expression. the most public part of home.
Living: ” How we chose to define ourselves to the others.”