HOUSE SWEET HOME

The phrases house and home are used interchangeably when referring to domestic or residential environments. It is critical for participants to express their understanding of the concepts. It is essential to recognize everyone’s lived experience that has shaped their notion of home. As a result, this knowledge is always developing.

Idioms like “feel at home” are tossed around as the goal for creating equitable environments. This implies feeling at ease and comfortable, welcomed, and as though you belong in a specific setting or with a group of people.

I feel that it is only through this knowledge that design will be able to approach the notion of the house. Using the responses of the participants, home can be understood as the people and feelings, and the house is the built structure to shelter and facilitate the functions of a home.