Question: How to avoid a space vacuum on the waiting land of Pier 1 during the „On-Hold-Phase“ of the project development?Strategy: The landscape becomes the major issue of the Pier 1 development strategy.A landscape is needed, that generates the possibilities of hosting functionality inside and on top and that forms the basic urban layer for raising and urban fabric. At the same time, during the „On-Hold-Phase“, it has to offer an open space that achieves all requirements of an operating public-space.The Hybrid-Surface is a multifunctional and a multilayer landscape-structure.The Hybrid-Surface structure generates a new and unique identity for Pier 1.The Hybrid-Surface structure generates a harbour like major-volume-structure that hosts large, medium and small scale volumes, which typically are forming an inner city urban fabric.