Among the most critical features of modern life, people's ability to relocate easily and the minimization of the importance of distance -affected by technological innovation in transportation and telecommunication- are calling into question the conventional sense of place.
This thesis dissertation is aimed at identifying emerging patterns of usage associated with the domestic environment in the digital age. This set of patterns will help us to define and design a domestic environment, a house that includes the original attributes of our times.
The taxonomy of these behavioral and environmental patterns will provide us with generic elements to build a poetic of everyday life. Our analysis of the disruption of the traditional notion of boundary informs our design options.
The site of exploration is a single-family house. A virtual model of the house is used in our design process to include time and memory as compositional elements.