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Figure Ground: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Figure-ground relationships form a foundational principle in visual and spatial design, describing how elements are perceived against their surroundings. This concept applies across disciplines, from graphic design and product interfaces to architecture and landscape interventions, shaping how audiences read and navigate designed systems.

The community explores figure-ground dynamics through projects that embed structures within landscapes, create visual hierarchies through spatial contrast, and design systems where foreground and background elements establish meaning together. Work ranges from architectural pavilions inserted into natural settings to digital interfaces and urban transformations that redefine the relationship between intervention and context.

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Ivan Raskovic5 works

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harshitha1 work

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Despoina Tsonidi1 work

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harshitha

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Meal Minder

The design of Urban Meal minder is such that the 75% of the users nutritional needs is grown by the urbane population and can be purchased at the different floor levels. The Design inspires the users to know better what constitutes a Balanced diet as a daily routine. The space get activated with cultural, social festivals related to agriculture.

Sanskriti and 2 others

237

Landfill to Landform_A Story of Transformation

Continued use of decommissioned Landfill sites is a major cause of concern in developing countries. Ghazipur Landfill Site, located in New Delhi, India has been in news headline for its height being compared to Qutub Minar and Taj Mahal. These sites are affecting environmentally, socially and economically, and thus require a permanent solution.

mojtaba and 3 others

106

Cube Land

The Cube Land Kindergarten tries to combine play, biological, visual, and movement experiences with architectural circulation and micro-space. Familiar spaces for the child in the combination with the Maori culture and the climatic needs of the region shape micro-spaces.

Zsolt and wael

Art Center in Aleppo

The Art Center will be the gateway to Aleppo Castle, which include concert hall,music institute ,200 underground parking,green terrace and plaza.

Vikram and 2 others

Sakura Jukyo

The words ‘Home Futura’ bring to the mind an image of the future, every human being has an ideal future and an essential part of this futuristic visual is a home. Idioms like ‘Home is where the heart is’ comes to mind.

Chalidapha

Canvas of people

"Change the image of the court" to a new format that is friendly and shows the transparency of the judicial system.

moath and Reem

GAMERINA

Where the future of gaming is

Ilgin

Terra-Cube

Terra-cube is a new formation that integrates with the roads around it and provides social and educational spaces to the city. In this formation, volumes of different sizes come together to form a terrace. People can perform various activities on these terraces overlooking the forest, which can be used in different periods according to their needs.

Durdija and Ivan

SPEAKERS’ CORNER NEWSPAPER

The proposed idea involves establishing an underground newspaper production within the confines of Hyde Park in London, with a specific emphasis on traditional printing methods such as woodcuts, linocuts, and engravings.

Hristo