All that is solid melts into air. A project on contemporary living and working practices

Before the widespread availability of telecommunication, the working day was clearly defined, as production could happen only at specific locations. You either were at the atelier, office, factory, or not. There was no room for ambiguity. However, the post-fordist production does not depend on certain spaces, thanks to the advancements in telecommunications. No fax machines, no office chairs, nothing but a 4.7-inch screen. The production of the contemporary worker does not depend on time, it is totally disassociated from absolute time, it has its internal clock. In a context that the border between the house and the workspace dissolves, housing typologies are still restricted to “traditional” nuclear family, and fail to express today’s perspectives and dynamics. This graduation thesis proposes various scenarios on contemporary domestic space and its relationship with production.