"I wanted a place that I thought of as semi-ambiguous architecture," he said, "a place that kind of plays with your expectations".
In contrast to the ambiguous postmodern architecture it exhibits a desire for clear lines, order, beauty, and spirituality, reaching beyond the uncertainty and vagueness of postmodernity.
The paper seeks to clarify the ambiguous relationship between architecture and simplicity, ordinariness and banality and cultural identity – more specifically how the architecture could be inspired by the ordinary in order to preserve the cultural identity.
Even by British standards, the bridge has become an ambiguous piece of modern architecture.
Sections of his ambiguous rebuses suggest Islamic architecture, divining rods, sandbags, bottles, fern fronds — even a corpse.
These obstacles include: ambiguous definitions of sustainable architecture, confusion over the meaning of sustainability, and lack of experts in this field.
The specification gives a precise and non ambiguous description of this architecture which is validated through the automatic generation of traces and interesting properties are proven.
The remaining genes could correspond to chimeric or degenerated IS elements or be composed of protein architectures with ambiguous correspondence to IS families.
Architecture alternatives were generated through genetic algorithms (GA), while fuzzy logic was used to determine the fittest architectures based on the ambiguous multi-dimensional performance attributes provided by the customer modeled in quality function deployment (QFD).
In contemporary architecture, this essential, complex and ambiguous rapport is defined by a multiplicity of trends, design directions and experimental forays into the sciences and arts.
