Indoor and Outdoor Living Spaces - Take it Outside by Amber Road

Amber Road’s ‘Let’s Take This Outside’ blurs the once distinguishable lines between indoor and outdoor Australian living.

Through layered materiality, audio, texture and moving elements, Amber Road explore the idea that the domestic life extends beyond the interior.

The installation is a reference to numerous, multi-layered cultural references, echoing the heritages of Amber Road’s principles Yasmine Ghoniem and Katy Svalbe’s own past, and their time living in Europe, the United States and the Middle East.

This installation by Amber Road explores the idea of the outdoor space becoming somewhat of a luxury in this contemporary built world.

As you move through the space, the raw, eclectic and expansiveness of Australia is clearly represented in a fanciful medley. The soundtrack of native birds, the BBQ sizzling and rain falling on tin rooves, are then overlaid onto this glowing box of counterbalanced elements.

The essence of ‘Take it Outside’ is as a domestic space ‘pregnant with possibility’. It represents imagined stories and sets a stage for nostalgic connections to domesticity to occur. The proposal sees a case for contemporary living to not be encased within mere walls, but to unfold beyond the familiar, and to treasure these premium connections to the raw (and rareness) of nature. This layered approach and commentary poses many questions about our living choices and acknowledgement of our own stories, past and future.

This layered approach and social commentary poses many questions through design about our living choices and acknowledgement of our own stories, past and future.