ABSTRACT
Dwelling, a central theme of architecture, has always been an unsolved issue, both in the quantitative and qualitative dimensions. Today, dwelling must meet the profound social, labor and technological changes that occurred in recent decades, and brought different and evolving requirements to the house. A clear dissociation between emerging ways of living and proposed housing models, heirs of rationalist modern architecture, can be observed. Addressing this question, several authors have pointed to different strategies as a way to find a more suitable house for the accelerated transformation of contemporary ways of dwelling: flexibility, adaptability, functional ambiguity and spatial de-hierarchization. The article aims to frame these concepts and contribute to the establishment of strategies and design tools developed to promote a more open-use and versatile interior domestic space.
