The house can be read as their two bodies intertwined, a mechanical body. The plan suggests the extension of their limbs and organs. It is a kind of prosthesis, incomplete and senseless without the body for whom it was designed. Bodies and words of architect, builder, inhabitant were incomplete in themselves, existing as a network of relations. For Gray, the house itself is read first through its relationship with the body.
Mechanization is rendered dependent, minor, mortal as it is engaged prosthetically.
Functions range from the most private to the most public.