Multiplicity

People, technology, and architecture are becoming more multi-faceted in their uses and abilities. Small technological devices have more and more uses under one umbrella. The iPhone and the like have the ability to surf the web, play music, call people, take pictures, send and receive email, schedule events, play games, the list goes on and on. People have become more flexible and multifaceted due to the increase of technology and openness in the world. People are parents, coaches, spouses, and the like, but what made me think about how people are trying to expand their world view is the word I heard, "hetero-flexible." A last wall of formality that we have as sexual beings has been challenged to be operating in another dimension. These two previous examples of people and technology must be applied to architecture to ensure that buildings are less formal and do more with the space we occupy on this planet. Smaller homes, being more utilitarian, but flexible to adapt to the uses of everyday life with aberrations along the way. This is not to say that being overly wishy-washy is the way to go either. Most of us have a lifestyle of home, but occasionally the need of the home to be something else occurs. We should not plan only for the formal needs, but have a certain amount of ambiguity built into each space.