The competition announced by the Municipality of Mira had a dual purpose. The country, which develops along the banks of the Brenta had, and still has, a huge problem of traffic crossing, especially heavy vehicles, on the tangent road to the river, which connects Venice with Padua. At the same time, the two banks on which the town stands are connected by revolving bridges, as the river is still navigable today. There is therefore a periodic interruption of the internal circulation of the country.
The project, hoping then for a ring road - however never realized - has set itself the goal of transforming the "obstacle" of the river into the missing centre of the country; that is to say, into a "liquid" Porto-Piazza around which, and inside which, construct a set of artifacts designed to contain the multiple (public and private) functions typical of the Central Square. At the same time preserving and stimulating the function of the Brenta as a waterway and Fluvial Port.