Abstract:
A project that explicitly challenges the thresholds of interiority. Considering how the spaces of urban
interiors might be integrated with the spaces of urban exteriors, as a means of enabling these interiors to
participate more fundamentally in the greater urban context. Issues of the exterior urban environment in relation
to the interior environment are addressed in order to clarify the meaning of Interior Architecture and to activate
a discussion that challenges the presumed boundaries of interior architecture. These boundaries refer to things
such as inhabitation, the immediate context, and the building envelope. This project is fundamentally about the
thresholds of interiority.
Through 'Introducing the urban street into the interior' the thresholds of interior architecture are directly
addressed in a way which allows for the intervention and re-interpretation of both circulation and inhabitation. It
is essentially the city itself that forms an interior for any situation. The many networks of streets, houses, roads,
buildings, telecommunications and pedestrian routes all combine to create many interiors within a city. It is the link
or transition between these contexts that is addressed in this project. This is achieved by bringing the street directly
into Plumbers Building (122/124 Wakefield street, Wellington). This is also fully realised through penetrations
through to neighbouring buildings (120 Wakefield Street, currently hotel and 126 Wakefield Street, Retail- Karen
Walker).
