Towards a New Urban Transformation of the Living Room. Expansion of the role of the living room through the contemporary society

Abstract

There is a fundamental relationship that links the domestic space with cultural transformations in progress and the urban. This connection is not just formal, but comprehend all the aspects of the society from the human behavior to the economy, passing by the architectural traditional dogmas. The living room, as it is architectonically structured as one of the home’s private places with more urban and social influences, it is taken as a prominent case to study the connections between the domestic space, the urban and the social changes. Through the living room it is possible to identify the actual meaning of “ living” in relationship with the space, both in the house and in the city, focusing especially on how the contemporary connection between domestic and urban is able to influence the very nature of the architectural needs that exist between the house and the city, thus involving a radical change in their traditional roles and meanings.