home (intangible)

Home is a certain set of habits performed by one or more people within a vessel—whether that space is permanent or temporary.

It represents the spatial imagery of the place you return to after a day’s activities: a place where you store your belongings, cook, sleep, read, bathe, relax, and sometimes work.

It is where humans raise and nurture other humans until they are ready to form or find a home of their own.

A house itself is merely the physical vessel, and it rarely stays static in its original purpose. We often see houses transformed into hotels, restaurants, kindergartens, or offices.

Duration and permanency matter: the longer people inhabit a vessel (like a house), the more personal their habits become, and the more customized the vessel turns out to be.

For instance, a married couple without children might happily live in a studio apartment. But as soon as they have a child, they consider moving to a two-bedroom house. Their habits shift with the arrival of the newborn, expanding their idea of "home" from two people to three.

Home expands first. If the current vessel can no longer accommodate these evolving habits, the occupants seek a larger one.

Even as they relocate, the core identity of the home remains unchanged—two adults and one child, now expanding their habits and needs. The new physical vessel is simply tested to see if it will be a good fit.

Home is intangible; a house is tangible.

Moving is essentially the act of transferring an intangible identity into a different tangible space.

A distinct process occurs when people use an intangible vision to bridge this gap—such as designing a new house on a plot of land

Habits are translated into data.

Data is developed into functional spatial programs.

Programs are visualized into design concepts.

Designs are measured into technical drawings.

Drawings are detailed with specifications.

This set of document are read and executed by contractors to construct the physical house.

The intangible home has no rigid measurements or clear borders; it continuously evolves. Along the way, personal references, aspirations, and hopes can sometimes cloud the decision of what is truly essential.

Likewise, the tangible house cannot perfectly measure the intangible home—it can only try to predict it.

The objectivel itself for the inhabitants to preserve the soul of their "home" within their new physical house.