Drop Houses explores the design of our physical environments based on the reality of our online life. Throughout the ages, our physical surroundings have reflected our cultural behavior. In this highly remote era, however, with virtual portals now a part of regular domestic space, our cultural behaviors and life moments occur increasingly online. The home will be to the virtual space experience what the body is to the physical experience of architecture.

Drop Houses examines the integration, overlap, exposure, and ownership of both digital and physical space in the future home. It considers the reciprocal influence of the everyday digital and the everyday physical, proposing new types of hybrid space. The forms and configurations of these hybrid spaces are determined by the residents’ various forms of online life – including both their professional and personal identities. It acts as a positive tool for creative self-affirmation, a practice of self-building. This project attempts to challenge our perceptions of domestic ritual, residential architecture, privacy and intimacy, personal identity shaping, and social norms.

It captures the evolving tension between the digital and physical realms, reflecting the forward momentum of "wanderlust" as humans navigate the expanding frontiers of virtual life. It imagines homes that transcend traditional architecture, shaped by our digital identities and interactions, offering a vision of space untethered from the physical world. Simultaneously, the work evokes "nostalgia" for a more grounded existence, questioning how intimacy, privacy, and the rituals of daily life adapt as technology reshapes our most personal environments. Through this dialogue, the work strikes a balance between forward-looking innovation and a nostalgic yearning for what is being left behind.