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Instructor: Ryan Tyler Martinez

Inside Out: The Blurring of Interior and Exterior

This thesis investigates the interior as an architectural lens mediating between body and landscape, articulated through the blue zone: a spatial gradient where interior and exterior conditions overlap. Through the orchestration of apertures, thresholds, and atmospheres, it positions the interior not as a subordinate enclosure but as a primary site of architectural meaning. Framed views, dissolving boundaries, and material articulations extend the exterior inward, transforming windows, walls, and surfaces into active devices of mediation within this blue zone. Through these strategies, interiors situate occupants within cultural narratives, environmental contexts, and sensory experience. The project ultimately seeks to reposition the interior as central to architecture, capable of shaping dwelling and public space with depth, resonance, and clarity.

Inside Out: The Blurring of Interior and Exterior