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Devicing home: from aji sunte ho to alexa

Mediatized Environments
Aditya Verma, 2020


Present-day homes can not be imagined without the technologies they are embedded with. Adapting to and appropriating these technologies brings about a change in the occupancy and the social interactions within the lived space of the home. This research aims to understand how emerging technology has been incorporated and assimilated within the spatiality of the home. Further, it also aims to consider the revised and evolving semantics of our everyday domestic environment seen through the intervention of new technologies.

Technological devices become intrinsic to the planning and formulation of an apartment. Physical re-morphing and organization of spaces are ordinarily done in accordance with the everyday devices. My aim in this research is to examine the architectural impact of these technological transformations and provide a critical analysis of how these transformations affect the physical space of a house, structuring of spaces, and hence inhabitation. I will look at apartment houses (BHK Model) of Mumbai over the last 90 years and trace their evolution through three rooms; the bedroom, the living room (hall), and the kitchen by analyzing the domesticities, both imagined and emerging within these houses. Apartment becomes an imagination deeply intertwined in the consumption of a very distinct kind of life that happens around technological devices. They are targeted at the lifestyles which happen around appliances and for the residents presumably sharing the same disposition towards daily life as conventionally implied.

However, the traditional meanings and functions associated with the divisions of the apartment no longer reflect the activities that they hold. Houses have started to lend themselves to all different kinds of possibilities which are being enabled and facilitated by new technologies and with them emerging new kinds of practices and social relationships within the domestic space. Through this study, the thesis aims to open up a discussion on how apartment architecture can be readdressed through a renewed understanding of the techno-social evolutions over the last century.



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