Would you like a smart house?

We all react to space and experience space in a very different way. The Home is for most of us a very important place, as Gaston Bachelard has described in The Poetics of Space it "is our corner of the world". It is the place where memories build up, where we feel safe, can retrieve and unwind.

We interact with that space, but does that space interact, react with and to us? How could we make it more sensitive to how we feel? Could it sense our moods and react accordingly? Could our home become a sanctuary of well-being and look after us ?

Can we have a smart home? Though according to Usman Haque and Adam Sam lai Fischer who built the Reconfigurable House, smart homes don't exist as they "aren't very smart simply because they are pre-wired according to algorithms and decisions made by designers of the systems rather than the people who occupy the houses". Isn't there a way to involve the occupiers or owners of the house in making those decisions and creating their smart house?

What do you think? I await your comments and suggestions as well as your wish list.