Normal Reconsidered

  For over a year, people’s attitude towards staying home changed from “distress” to “makeshift”. The modality from “work-to-home” to “home-to-home” induces tasks and habits as the home becomes the new everything. I took this phenomenon as a case study and questioned how people’s behavioral and habitual shifts lead to unusual patterns in spatial organization. Questionnaire was the format of this project, and a charted daily schedule was the program. The survey result was a starting point that eventually developed into a refurbished architectural plan of a typical domestic space. Built upon the biophysical likeness between the human body and the house, and revisiting the “home nostalgia” from Bachelard’s narrativity and Heidegger’s ‘making of a house’, the everydayness of dwelling becomes temporal rituals while the physical environment loses its familiarity. Under the frame of scenarios, individuality has never been more critically interrogated. The convergence of modalities reminds us to reconsider the importance of physical boundary, sensory perception, and memory of living in a house.