What Does an Interior Architect Do? Inside the Technical Work | TERRĀ

Interior decoration is the work you see. Interior architecture is the work you can't, and it is the reason an interior either holds together or quietly comes apart in the years after handover. Nicole Currer, co-founder of TERRĀ, explains what separates the two disciplines, and why the technical decisions behind a finished room are the ones that determine whether it still reads as considered years later. In this short film, Nicole covers: Where decoration ends and interior architecture begins, and why chasing a wall is the dividing line What full technical coordination includes: slip grades for shower floors, lighting coordinated against HVAC, and consultant and engineer information captured in one set _ Junction details, the millimetre decisions about where materials meet that the eye reads as quality without knowing why _ A current Llandudno project where concealed doors and a shadow-gap skirting profile carry the entire interior TERRĀ is a Cape Town interior design and interior architecture studio working across residential and hospitality projects, specialising in natural materials and technical precision. Read the full piece: terradesign.co.za/journal/what-does-an-interior-architect-do