The general idea of the plan was laid out in marking the paths and selecting a series of points related to orientation and views.
Pikionis wanted to provide a sequence of emotions such as surprise, admiration and curiosity to the visitor before he could reach the Acropolis or Philopappos Hill.
Pikionis collected marble and clay shards left over from the demolished buildings of nineteenth-century Athens and composed them into a collage in the paths.
He said: "The common architectural supervision would be totally inadequate and the architect should build the work himself through the hands of his craftsmen."
His thinking is in a way close to Le Corbusier's during his brutalism period, when he considered incidental imperfection done by workers a beautiful part of the finished project.