Sefora Khoboko

The idea of “human-centred design” is often equated with the aspirations of interior design as a profession (Attwill, 2011:15). This is a design approach where the inside influences the outside. The transition point between the two spaces, known as the boundary, becomes a defining point at which the body experiences the dualities of inside/outside and private/public. The boundary is the point that defines and differentiates interiority and exteriority and the point across which they exchange and potentially collapse into each other (McCarthy, 2005:115). This way of thought challenges the traditional stronghold of interior space, where it is commonly associated with the limits of a building’s envelop or surfaces presented by built form (Power, 2016:19). It becomes possible to consider that a sense of enclosure, and therefore interiority, can be formed, but without the requirement of building elements to make the spatial arrangement apparent (Power, 2016:19). The concept of boundary transforms into a notion of a threshold where Interiority, then, can be defined by its liminality – its changeability. In this sense, interiority is temporal in nature, able to be dissolved, and made manifest at its variable change (Power, 2016:19)

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UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA

BIArchHons 2019 

BSc Interior Architecture 2012 - 2015