In front of the restaurant and café, a new public space is created as a main gathering spot and address for the university in the historic city.

This central space organises the walkways of hundreds of students, professors, employees, Ghentians and casual passers-by. In this sense, it functions as a connective hub between ‘De Brug’ and its immediate neighbours: the ‘Technicum’ building and the ‘Universiteitsforum’ (UFO). This threefold servitude makes for the (literal) baselines of the project: in the orthogonal interplay of lines on the square, the rhythm of the Technicum’s façade is interwoven with the dimensions of the concrete panels of the new student restaurant extension.