2023 Summer Issue of Urban Land - 93

Outdoorness
Erasing the lines between
the inside and outside
worlds.
COLLIN KOONCE
In response to increased awareness
of nature and the market demand
for more and higher-quality connections
to it, our approach as designers
and architects continues to
evolve beyond simply blurring the
line between indoor and outdoor
spaces. Providing end-users with a
choice that originates from a binary
view-either indoor or outdoor-is no
longer enough.
It is often our aim to erase the
line between inside and out and
understand how we can provide
spaces across a spectrum of what
I call outdoorness. Designs born of
this concept are aimed at providing
end-users with a full range of spaces
that offer an optimal level of comThe
concept of
outdoorness may
be pictured as a
continuum. There are
different gradients
of outdoorness, and
how that affects
quality and sense of
place roots a project
in its context.
fort according to the weather, time
of day, and type of use, all tied to a
greater connection to the outdoors.
Concept as a Continuum
Outdoorness may not seem like
a term easily applied to the built
environment, but if you picture the
concept as a continuum, much of
our environment already incorporates
some aspects of the concept. There
are different gradients of outdoorness,
and how that affects quality
and sense of place roots a project in
its context.
Think of it as a y-axis: at the left
would be the interior-most room in
a building, typically with a gradient
of 0 outdoorness, and as one
moves toward the exterior walls, the
gradient increases. For example, a
bedroom with operable windows
with a view of the outside would be
on the left end of the continuum,
around a level 1 or 2. Covered spaces
with three walls of windows would
be representative of an even higher
gradient. At the end of the scale, the
highest level of outdoorness could
represent a person on a trail in the
Great Smoky Mountains, where there
are no buildings and no cars.
Practically speaking, outdoorness
can take many forms. For example,
in interior lobby spaces, we boost
outdoorness by bringing in more
plants, sunlight, and fresh air. We
design indoor amenity spaces with
more operable windows. With exteriors,
we often increase the indoorness
by focusing on microclimates and
creating outdoor rooms. This can be
done by extending shade structures
from the building, using breezeways
as active and passive space, and
employing pavement and plants to
define a room's " walls " and " floors. "
Biophilic Benefits Abound
Though it has been conventional
wisdom that much more opportunity
exists to incorporate greater
outdoorness in projects in warmer
climates such as Florida, this is no
longer the case. Even in colder climates
like Minnesota, designers have
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