In the course of just a few decades Emmen has grown from a farming village into a town the size of Sion. But Emmen remains an agglomeration without an old town or a centre. Defining a new use for the Monosuisse site located directly beside the River Emme now offers an opportunity to give the town a centre. The existing buildings in this industrial conglomerate are of impressive quality. The site is a kind of town within the town. The diversity of volumes, facades and typologies creates highly differentiated open public spaces with a genuinely urban character. Our project is developed on the basis of four fundamental theses: we postulate: 1. Programmatically activating the centre and linking it more effectively to the railway station and other districts. 2. Bringing the town to the river by opening up the site. 3. Increasing the urban quality on the site and developing it further, 4. Preserving the diversity of the existing buildings and strategically expanding it.