The phrase "a horizontal structure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an arrangement or organization that is flat or level, often in contexts like architecture, design, or organizational hierarchy.
Example: "The architect proposed a horizontal structure that would blend seamlessly with the surrounding landscape."
Alternatives: "a flat design" or "a level framework".
It's as if prose is a horizontal structure, built across a surface, while poetry is a catacomb.
Some analysts say the drug industry is undergoing a transition similar to the computer industry's move from vertical integration, exemplified by I.B.M., to a horizontal structure -- with Intel making chips, Microsoft making software and others specializing in manufacturing or sales.
Roles have been decided "democratically, and actually quite naturally", he said, through a horizontal structure of frequent general assemblies and an elected (and instantly dismissable) 11-person managing board.
Power has taken on a horizontal structure.
Coordination and coherence are concerns in a horizontal structure, such as among the services offered within an on-the-ground community care system.
In order to avoid such an error, a morphological dilation with a horizontal structuring element is previously performed, as shown in Figure 5b.
Next, the binary mask defined by the spine is dilated with a horizontal structuring element, and the outcome is used as a mask for separating cardiac structures from the posterior part of the chest wall (since the process described in Subsection 2.1.3 does not remove the lower part of the image).
Of a different order is "The Ball Balll in a Landscape)" of 1978, in which a rugged horizontal structure, like a felled bridge, descends in a slight arc from a supporting end post.
Like most others interviewed, he was reluctant to give his name for fear of conveying a sense of hierarchy within a movement that "has to keep a completely horizontal structure".
NEW YORK -- Protesters at Occupy Wall Street insist that they are a completely leaderless movement with a purely horizontal structure.
Some workplaces have successfully move to a more horizontal structure where all persons involved have a voice in what happens in the workplace.
