Carbon Copy??

Creating space for others is not an easy task.  People are not the same as each other.  We differ from person to person.  This is in part due to the environments that we grow up in and the things we experience.  This makes us all have different preferences for different things and spaces in life.  Some people may enjoy being in a space with a lot of information/things to look at while others are content with a room that is minimalistic.  This makes it difficult to design for people and instead we use codes and other rules when designing to make sure the place we create doesn't fall over and let the people who inhabit the space decorate/design the interior to match their preferences.  

The biggest example of this is the housing market.  Houses in suburbia look very similar to each other.  It isn't until you enter the house that you find it looking very different.  It may not be different in the floor plan or the square footage of the different spaces, but in the way the owners went about making it feel like home to them.

This to me is a waste of the ground space that architects and contractors use when creating homes for people.  I think the space itself should matter to people and their preferences should be seen in the design of the structure and form of the house.  I believe that houses should not be carbon copies of each other.  If you want to repeat a couple key features of a house, such as structure, façade elements, or interior materials, that is fine.  I don't want to look at a house and look at its neighbor and only be able to tell them apart by the number on the house and the paint color used.  

There is so much technology and skills out there and they are being wasted on making carbon copy houses.