In the earliest plans for Prinsenland Park, the designers attempted to give expression to the area’s original character, resulting in a primarily empty space with accents based on the existing parcellation pattern. This yielded a sound, but insufficiently defined design, which failed to elicit much approval from the attendant planning team. In 1985, the practice explained: ‘We wanted to introduce something that would change the accentuation for the entire project, and that was the “intuitive step”.’ The fear to use elements that did not have a direct connection to the landscape’s substratum disappeared. The framework remained spare – two squares, bordered by trees – but within these spaces, a free play was initiated between different existing spatial elements and newly introduced ones. Presumably under the influence of the work done on Groeneveld Park, a path was laid that flowed diagonally through the park, making a rambling movement possible.