Ingemar Lindberg mentions that “the basic structure of (the home) is the cooperation and the sense of belonging” 5. Indeed, one aspect, not at all insignificant, is the fact that the term of belonging appears frequently when we discuss this relation.
In opposition, the ones I call by residents, they assume it, by the way they coexist with the home, with the sense of mutual belonging. Thus, these last ones are not capable of building an empathic involvement with the house they live ( because of them and/or its own house), by limiting themselves to use them as an object, and by using it without any emotional connection, emptying the house of any meaning besides being an utility object. In this way, this duality implies, on its own, different types of inhabitants: the ones that actually live in the houses, the residents and, the ones who just use them, the users. There are other moments in which our houses express infinite possibilities, when they reflect exactly who we are, what we could and might be” 4. This capability is clearly explained by Akiko Bush when he refers that “there are moments when the very idea of house seems like an impossible preposition. In fact, is that degree of habitability that truly gives, or not, to the building the designation of home. In this context, a house only becomes effectively a home, when it has someone who provides that skill, since it is marked by the experiencing of the ones who live there.
On the other side, its absence is reflected in a meaningless drawing, incapable of creating homes and creator of packages with low significance.
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This ability, translated into the full overlap of the spheres of function and use, will make better houses, once they respond to what it is expected. It lies in the Architect that capability of achieving the project of a house that’s able to establish with who will live in it, empathy, affinity and compatibility. It’s necessary a thorough analysis in order that the designed answer can be detailed, regarding the program, the functions and the aesthetic aspect” 3. It is up to whom is entrusted with such a hard chore, the capability of being able to analyse “in depth the habits, the needs and the aspirations of the family that will live it. Save this picture! Casa en Ourém / Filipe Saraiva. These aspects, in addition to exalt the house as a concept to be considered, it leads me to another stage of reflection: the existence of different concepts of house implies the existence of different concepts about the ones who project them and the ones who inhabit them? DOMICILE I intend to separate myself from those houses, that are no more than machines to inhabit, incapable and disable to conceive an effective bond with whom inhabits it. Then it’s obvious that, in this dichotomy HOME vs. Nevertheless, I don’t discredit the house as a physical structure! Besides, as an architect, I couldn’t do it, but also, ARCHITECTURE is not capable of producing objects without any content. Therefore, the idea of home that interests me carries, specially, a meaning, patent on the relation that the house is capable of establish with the ones who live it.
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In fact, there is a fundamental issue in this idea of home that fascinates me, which is evident in Monteys and Fuertes words, when they affirm, “ a home is a dwelling plus its residents and the objects it keeps” 2, in other words, the house is beyond its materiality lacking of essence.
The concept of home is associated to some transcendence that others synonyms of house, such as domicile, don’t have. In a simple etymological analysis of the words, one can verify – in home – an aspect that, saying particularly anything, it says it all. I’ve been using the term house to define the idea of what I want to discuss, however, what really matters to me is the house as a home. After all, I always knew them in myself, but never truly understood them.Įven though this journey approaches me to the answers, it also takes me to more questions and, consequently, to new reflections.Īs a first step, there stands out the need, pragmatically, to define and to distinguish concepts. Therefore one imposed an exercise of self-questioning, where it becomes essential to search the core of that concepts, that till today seemed to me as basic, familiar and in a certain way, natural and inherent. Image Cortesia de Fran Silvestre ArquitectosĪs I have an affinity for the house theme, namely the single-family house, the mentioned sentence allowed me to do a kind of introspective brainstorming, that searched for a redefinition of a set of concepts related to the theme. Save this picture! La cuarta habitación / Fran Silvestre Arquitectos.
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