The design finishes the Smets-square and there is due spaces, creates new passages, integrates the existing Fabiola building and enclose a new informal semi-public/semi-private courtyard. The apartment building acts as an intermediate zone between 2 different scale levels and each building block is finalized by taking his own logic into account. The commercial space is implantated on the ground level around the Smets-square, the residential space is concentrated and orientated around/towards the courtyard. On the side of the Hogeschool-square the project forsees townhouses and a “corner-building” with apartments and a commercial space. Lofts are used to make the transition from the Pausvollege-building to the new apartment building.