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We propose the use of glass slots to bring light into the car parking and a develop series of cuts that enable pedestrian movement between the upper and lower layers. Mounts appear to support the buildings and hide a plethora of underground programmes. In this way nothing spoils the sculptural composition of groundscape and buildings.  The paths themselves are forming a tessellated mesh that enables multiple choices of routes. Walking along them, the visitor experiences the building facades from opaque towards fully transparent.
Just as the landscape is multitasking so do the voids: they function as light well, structure and service provider simultaneously.
With floor plans between 24 and 32 Meters deep we ought to introduce light wells in order to daylight the whole plan of each building and counter the traditional hierarchical rule where space on the edges is of better quality, becoming worse the more one gets towards the centre. Now the plan works as a ring without those black spots.