Eirini Kyriakidou, "The City in the City: a figure - ground analysis", Diploma Thesis Project, School of Architectural Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2018
https://doi.org/10.26233/heallink.tuc.79474
The term “the city in the city” refers to a building complex or a number of city blocks which make up an autonomous universe, a miniature of the whole which they are part of. Similarly, the campus is a microcosmos, making use of the organizational and structural principles of the host city to construct a communal environment. The expansion of this relation between city and campus is the focus of the present project and specific examples are being studied. As an analytical tool, I have chosen figure ground, a graphic design technique simplifying the spatial phenomena in a binary code, black and white, structured – unstructured (…)