Digital technology has transformed countless facets of life in recent decades, but one of its most significant upheavals has been the home, a domain that has exhibited little outward change. Stodgy and slow to adapt, domestic space has lagged the disruptive fervor seen elsewhere; by staying relatively stable as everything around it has changed, the home has been recontextualized by technology, assuming entirely new roles and functions without visibly evolving much. Housing, as it turns out, is difficult for software to completely “eat,” as it is hard to melt down into pure information, and costly to retrofit.At its most fundamental, a home is a shelter for the people who inhabit it permanently. But a home is also the site of a wide variety of activities, and the place where we keep the belongings that facilitate those activities. A growing number of these belongings are digital: recent replacements for analog household appliances and systems, now operated via user interfaces, such as connected lights, connected locks, and connected doorbells. As this technology continues to evolve, we layer these domestic interfaces onto the existing home, often haphazardly, without the necessary time or budget to seamlessly integrate the new and the old.In 1923, Le Corbusier described the home as “a machine for living in,” but machines require perfect coordination of their parts in order to work, hence the modernist approach that he helped pioneer: Tear everything down and then rebuild it from scratch — again, an approach that is frequently unavailable, if not actually harmful.