Backdrop, designed by Landscape Forms in collaboration with KEM STUDIO, is a system of modular panels, posts and accessories designed to create tailored destinations that enhance everyday life outdoors, define exterior space, and activate underutilized areas with purpose and meaning. Elegantly designating space, guiding the flow of passersby, and welcoming people to interact, it flows and responds to an environment's existing features and integrates intuitively with people's daily lives. Engineered for virtually endless layouts, functionality, and degree of enclosure, Backdrop encourages design creativity while easily adapting to unique site opportunities. Backdrop's panels can be perforated, glass, planted greenscreen or louvered to customize ambiance and transparency. Power garage posts offer convenient charging for mobile devices. Integrated peninsula or inline tables create comfortable spaces for a meal, work or conversation. Bar tops create casual, two-sided seating. Configurable bike racks, coat racks, and shelving units offer convenient storage for personal items. Applications for Backdrop can range from a private nook, to a productive workspace, to an outdoor dining area, to a large and branching social gathering space.

Backdrop, designed by Landscape Forms in collaboration with KEM STUDIO, has a simple yet vitally important purpose—to define the outdoor spaces where people want to be. Yet there's more to creating inviting spaces than simply physical delineation. Equally important is the human, emotional component—how these spaces make people feel, where these spaces appear in their daily lives, and the types of moments these spaces help inspire. In the places people enjoy most, the right physical characteristics help to create environments that elicit the feelings, memories, conversations, and connections experienced within. The space sets the mood and becomes a "backdrop" for life and living.

Backdrop utilizes its structural modularity, functional versatility, and aesthetic customizability to intelligently address all these key factors. It understands both the material and immaterial aspects of defining space by creating outdoor destinations that are as surprising and unexpected as they are uniquely appreciated and intuitively welcoming. Placed along daily paths, such as campuses, streetscapes, residential communities, shopping and hospitality locations, Backdrop offers a place for focus and productivity, a bite to eat, an impromptu conversation, or a personal moment to recharge.

One of the central inspirations behind Backdrop was the new category of outdoor space that emerged during COVID-19, and the need to reframe and reclaim empty or underused space on the streets that the pandemic brought about. Backdrop expands on the idea of using minimal infrastructure to create destinations with a sense of place, and does so in a polished, high-quality, and highly-designed way. While some conditions have changed and indoor gathering restrictions have relaxed, Backdrop occupies a world in which people are seeing outdoor space with fresh eyes and renewed inspiration. Accelerated during the pandemic and now persisting beyond, municipalities, corporate and education campuses, restaurants, businesses, residential communities, and hospitality destinations are looking for innovative ways to incorporate the outdoors as a cornerstone of their day-to-day operation.

Reframing the role of the outdoors in daily life, Backdrop offers designers a simple system to both provide sought-after functionality and create a welcoming sense of place throughout a diverse range of outdoor settings. While it is designed for simplicity and ease of specification, Backdrop is also created to inspire creativity and offer designers the freedom to explore new concepts of outdoor space to their fullest potential. The degree of control Backdrop lends designers to manipulate sight lines is key in creating a setting-specific sense of place, and its adaptability in aesthetics and accessories ensures each Backdrop installation can offer unique atmosphere and meaningful outdoor experiences.