This article discusses the human habitation in contemporary times, taking the loft as an object of analysis. Its objective is to dialogue, parting from critical perspectives about the implications that emerges of re-signification of the house's space, locus of the interpersonal contemporary relationships. Using theorical references that moves towards Psychoanalysis and Sociology, it is observed that the dynamics which develops on a transitional context, where the life patterns are in metamorphosis, as it's shape and it's essence. In this context, the loft emerges as a symbol of post-modernity, in transposition of public spaces to the private ones, locals where everything is seeing and everything shows itself, space of liquid relationships and loneliness.
Housing; Postmodernism; Psychoanalysis; Sociology