Skin: The Interior Lens

High design interior or high design exterior. Fancy inside of the box or fancy outside of the box. Fighting to design one or the other seems frivolous as from my perspective if you have an opportunity to design, take it. Design within constraints is an inevitable reality of the design world today, and as designers, we must learn to operate within these constraints regardless of whether they are interior or exterior of a building. Both have their guidelines, but what seems the most frivolous about this "argument" is that no matter how much you restrict one or both, the environment has to pass through the skin to get to the interior. The interior must be protected from the exterior and the relationship between the two is inevitable with things like, temperature differences, natural light, wind, and humidity, people, visual connections, and urban context/relationships. The atmosphere of the interior is created by exterior factors and vice versa. Choosing one over the other may create a strong project or design, but not as strong as it could be. Ignoring the relationship in favor of one side or the other causes the other to suffer.

Wheres the light come from?