The brief for this project pre-scribed an eight-storey apart- ment complex (‘boomerang’) adjacent to a park. Behind it, a green residential area of reduced traffic flow would be created (‘residential park’) containing a central parking zone for 100 cars. It was evident to us that, in similar realised projects in Leidsche Rijn, the contrast between high-rise and single-family dwellings was simply too great. Furthermore, the presence of a parking zone in a car-free neighbourhood was difficult to reconcile.By cutting the eight-storey ‘boomerang’ in two and placing the parts side-by-side, the capacity of the garage underneath was doubled. This enabled the parking zone planned for the centre of the project to be shifted underneath the apartments, and a practically car-free environment in the residential park was achieved. The space between the two linear volumes of the ‘boomerang,’ and above the garage, was then used to create an open courtyard. A vehicular access road loops through the ‘residential park’, beginning and ending in the garage where parking space for the whole development is located. The garage therefore becomes an integral component of the plan for the residents of the park and ‘boomerang’ alike. By organising the project in this way, an improved relationship between the two elements of the project, and their different housing typologies, is created. The height of the apartment block is halved so it no longer screens the sun from the park dwellings. Furthermore, the residents in the park area enjoy the advantages of a practically car-free neighbourhood yet still have the use of two covered parking spaces in the garage.