Enabling: On the dispersion of the nuclear family model. New parameters of the boundary of living.

De la dispersion del modelo de familia nuclear. Nuevos parámetros de la frontera del habitar.

Abstract

Enabling (Habilitando) is an investigation into the breaking of the traditional boundaries of living. The study area of housing, still submerged in the canons of nuclear family and full of legal, technical and economic rules, is rethought under Carmen´s perspective, a girl who, under the regime of shared custody, constantly moves between two ways of living, between two houses. 

From this first vision, from this experience, the boundarie of the birthplace is diluted, the housing program is dispersed and the use of certain elements is reinterpreted. There is a valid ambiguity in the use of spaces, furniture and objects that clash with the strict design limits of the house. There are new family and relationship needs and, therefore, this new dimension of the domestic, which has exceeded the conceptual limit of the family home (the “home for life”) requires a more flexible and versatile, more human design in the housing.