The home's future: A space in transition

People's homes and ways of housing are facing an unprecedented crisis today. All the theories of space around which, in the last century, the housing needs of people have been structured, have been put into crisis by an unprecedented pandemic event. It opened our eyes to a revolution that was dramatically already underway but that we did not see with the right lenses. It began about twenty years ago but, due to the apparent generosity of some of its manifestations, and our inability to intuit the implications that, in a short time, would have directly affected individuals and their everyday life, they have taken second place, entering the world of domestic architecture only as practices of a routine updating of the technical form of housing. The essay wants, starting from these considerations, to investigate how the way we think our homes has now reached a turning point. In order to correctly govern this process of transformation, it is necessary, on the other hand, to be able to isolate every phenomenon that concerns home living in its correct scale. Hence the identification of three main vectors of transformation through which investigate the specificities of the needs to which the home must be able to respond in order to meet the needs of individuals adequately. At the same time, the essay highlights how our profound housing culture, masterfully codified over two millennia ago, has inexorably lost track of some fundamental paradigms that we are called to rediscover today