Interior exterior thresholds: A restaurant in the Assiniboine Forest

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2019-12
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Bautista, Billy
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Interior designers are often tasked with providing solutions for spaces that are defined as being inside. Interior design should not be limited to this condition. Spaces have qualities and characteristics that hold value, regardless of whether it is inside, outside, enclosed, or non-enclosed. This practicum project challenges this way of practice by exploring interior and exterior thresholds. The explorations of this project are presented through the design of a restaurant in the Assiniboine Forest, Winnipeg, Manitoba. This restaurant highlights the value the Assiniboine Forest has to offer and celebrates these qualities through all four seasons. The built environment highlights key research findings in interior and outdoor rooms, place-making, and thresholds. Ideas that are discussed in this project are influenced by theorists, researchers, and practitioners such as Christian Norberg-Schulz, Tim Cresswell, Jean Baudrillard, Jane Rendell, Teiji Ito, Barrie Greenbie, and Kengo Kuma, to name a few. I bring forward a design project that illustrates how interior designers can challenge the boundaries that lie between the realms of interior and exterior with particular reference to the conditions of Winnipeg.
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Assiniboine forest, Thresholds, Interior, Design, Restaurant, Architecture, Landscape
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