The project is located in a zone that has always been a traditionally industrial area, built in a heterogeneous fashion with large-scale factory blocks. Even if the layout continues with the city of Zurich's, it has no relationship with the definitive 18th century expansion of uniform blocks formed by the confines of the railroad. This element, the railroad, in relation to the scale of these two parts of the city, determines a net division in the urban fabric.

The large dimension of the industrial site allowed for various possibilities of intervention, such as the definition of the street facing facades, functional divisions, construction of a center, and the overall fabric of the site. The proposal of integration with the existing urban fabric by continuing with the construction traditional of Zurich can also change the possible variations of the form of the intervention. A fundamental choice for the project is the confirmation of the continual facade that lies along the public street. The minimum amount of spacing between the building and the neighboring lot is 10 meters.

The facades also have a single alignment and a possible semi-public street. Another choice was to consider the functional characteristic of the building facades. The functional divisions of the faces are not to be misunderstood as a "zoning" philosophic line, but in the will to give a hierarchy to the block in accordance to its history and preexistence. In this sense it was determined that the building block along Josef-Strasse is destined to industry, the larger block is of mixed use - mainly residential with a commercial part along Heinrich Strasse, and finally a pedestrian walkway is in the center of the lot integrated into the green looking onto the railroad. The block was determined in the traditional urban court structure on a preexisting fabric with an underlying semi-public walking fabric. The position of the underground garages goes along with the building blocks and their public roads, separated from one another and served by autonomous ramps.

This gives the possibility of dispersing the access traffic without congesting the block, as well as allowing the realization of a completely green center. The body of mixed typology buildings that runs along Heinrich Strasse has a public extension from the interior of the block to the road. They are connected to the street by walkways or through the stores themselves. The creation of this double facade is very important for the integration between public and private parts in how the urban block is managed.