The project radically reorganizes the two dysfunctional spaces on site - the desolate, oversized, sun-beaten square; and the isolated historical garden - with a simple, scaffold-like array, creating a continuous urban space along the main street at the front of the municipal compound, and injecting its energy inwards by a horizontal structure, stretching over the square and covering part of it, producing a well-proportioned, inviting urban courtyard for varying uses. The 'scaffolds' encourage human activities as well as vegetation growth on them, obtaining both a sense of urban intensity and a pleasant intimacy in their spaces.