Continuous green bands surround the residential clusters and form a continuous ecological structure. The green bands are programmed with sports and leisure playing fields and playgrounds. They also provide an attractive pedestrian network that links the quarters to the bands.

In the central north-south bands a continuous internal, climatized feature is introduced, forming an indoor winding promenade that links the individual buildings and also insulates buildings from the natural loss of heat. At the point where the promenade encounters the central attractor it connects with the large climatised public spaces of its large public provisions, such as: a library, a cinema, a museum, a theater and a school.

The architectural elaboration of the different attractors in the central bands, aims to turn these attractors into landmarks as requested by the brief. However, it remains to be seen if even the wildest architectural elaboration and the most adventurous programming of the attractors would suffice to provide the development the unique identity that is aimed for. Rather than banking on the impacts of the individual buildings, our bet is on the impact of the overall composition; the bird’s eye view that declares the whole development into a landmark, producing identity unimaginable at the scale of a building – an urban quarter as the blueprint for the ideal city.