The subject of the competition was the transformation of a currently industrial area into a residential neighborhood in Prague 6. The winner was not designated, and our team received one of the two second prizes. The site covered an area of 68 hectares, bounded by Drnovská Street, Vlastina, U Silnice, Libocká, and the railway line between Prague and Kladno. Participation in the competition marked a contrasting entry for the architect into the field of urban planning, which had previously been primarily considered a social science.

From the architect's perspective, the concept of a city is primarily about masses, spaces, divisions, dimensions, and scale. We believed that the best approach to building a city was to start with concrete elements—apartments, buildings, plazas, streets, courtyards, and passageways—making it possible to incorporate human scale into the large construction product. We thus designed thousands of apartments, hundreds of buildings, and dozens of public spaces. The result is a diverse inner world within a larger, rationally organized compact unit.