The Remedy of the sick Home

Student: Catherine Economou
Supervising prof: Iris Lykourioti
University of Thessaly dept. Of Architecture
Presentation date: 3 October 2012

What would your house say about you if it could speak? What kind of relationship do we develop with it? What parameters define and shape the relationship between dweller and dwelling? Do we feel happy at home? How much impact can this have on our psyche?

The present narration deals with the conversation between home and inhabitant, especially when this communication is not based on healthy foundations. What does the inhabitant do when he reaches his emotional limits, admitting that he feels pressurized by his home and by the conditions within it? Where does he seek help in this case? Who can restore the ruins in this relationship?

The story begins with a feeling of dysphoria expressed by Lina, an inhabitant who perceives herself as "homeless" within her home. She lives amongst four walls with whom she can't converse emotionally. An ephemeral aspect tends to overshadow her capability to bond with her home. She can't live in the present, nor does she know how to let her home provide her with all those things it was meant to provide.

Orpheus, an Architect who promises to solve her problem by means of his architectural methods, answers her call for help.

He leads her to the source of this emotional gap and empowers her to search for the lost intimacy with her home.