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What Makes a House a Home?
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What Home Feels Like
We often confuse the structural, physical entity that is the house as home. It may be the body of the home, and just like we relate to our body, the home relates to the house structure.
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Home Is A Soul
Just as we are extremely lucky if we get one great love in our lives, we should consider ourselves lucky if we get a real home. The abstract concept of a home is almost supernatural, with the house...
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Architecture Is Fascinating
Architects are creators in the real sense. They can conceptualize and implement great design and arouse deep feelings just by the work they do.
Their work is a siren call for many, both ro...
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The Illusion Of A Castle
A house can protect us but can also enslave us, as many war stories in history have shown. The mortgage can chain us into a submissive life, turning the house into a liability.
A house is a...
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The Other Side
Studies on long term work-from-home workers found that lack of interaction with colleagues and the lack of an office vibe can result in a disconnection from the outer world, leading to isolation.
Working at Home
Pitfalls of working from home:
- Mental health disorders like anxiety, stress, and depression
- Feeling isolated
- Less self-discipline
- Lack of exercise
- Unable to keep the boundaries between work and life.
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Shelter and refuge
Our homes are now being used not only as shelter and refuge, but also as workplace and school and gym and theater and restaurant and bar and laundry and town square.
But whether a house o...
Rethinking utility
A home of any kind is a blessing. But quarantine also means that small elements of home design can have significant consequences.
How much space you have, the number of rooms, whether you have internet, a dishwasher and washing machine, whether you have an area in which to exercise or be alone or be together or cook or get fresh air—those factors will now take on even more weight.
Home as the only place
- Even people who are usually good at handling stress can find their mental health affected by periods of continuous closeness.
- Constant togetherness can be a great thing, right up until it isn’t. So if you live with others and find yourself needing space of your own, tell them that.
- Use creative hacks: for example, if a bedroom is doubling as an office, create the ritual, at the start of the workday, of shutting the door (a sign that the bedroom is now a workspace).
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Buildings talk to us
A rarely remarked upon feature of buildings is that they tell us something about themselves and its broader view of the world.
The Mauritshuis, a museum in the Hague compl...
Buildings don't say the same things
Some buildings can be loud or impatient. In Madrid, there's a large residential block that speaks of being bored with convention. The building is not necessarily new, but certainly up for fun.
Then there are buildings covered with dreary graffiti that talks of lacking hope for the future and of just giving up.
Buildings affect our self-conception
Buildings have a great influence over our self-conception. Very often, we don't have a stable sense of our value or society. On some days, things can feel tolerable, and we have faith in our fellow humans. But on other days, we sense our mood dropping. We wonder about the cruelty of people.
Crucially for our state of mind is the architecture that can help push us either in a positive or a negative direction. Buildings that speaks of forgiveness, gentleness and modesty can make the world feel benevolent. If we are stuck in streets that talk to us sharply about shame, about being a nobody, these messages can amplify the worst on our inner world.