FEELING WELL AT HOME. About the need to finally rethink housing – essay

by Anne Lacaton, Carina Sacher – published in: TRANSFER, transfer-next

Does the global emergency braking finally have the power to catapult us from home-seclusion and home-introspection to a joint recovery of the housing value?

Stay at home! The clear message issued worldwide almost simultaneously in mid-March, urging us to leave home only in extreme need, interrupted our familiar daily routine and straitened our living environment from one day to the next, limiting it to the domestic space available to us. In that time of needs must, domestic space turned almost instantly into an amalgam of activities and routines that had previously been outsourced and were not intended for it, superimposed over those of our companions, family members and flatmates. read whole article here