KEY ISSUE. Strategical approach to connect the site to a future tramway station. Economic and functional program to organise the short and long-range planning. Create a new «home area».

BRIEF. With the saturation of their city centers many big cities are turning to the question of the regeneration of their outer suburbs. These suburbs are becoming the focus of new development as the limits of inner city growth are reached.

These suburbs should not just be considered as simply residential areas but should also possess their own attractiveness and dynamics, not least because they are becoming more readily accessible. They must find their place in a complex network that involves local, regional or national initiatives.

Our response is to propose a consolidation at the local level in developing the notion of the “Home area”, or the “micro-village” of the 21st century, with places for intergenerational exchange, socializing, work and shopping, and so forth: to create new scenes for/from the suburbs.