ABSTRACT
Transparent form-organization should be considered as an instrument of design, as a technique for creating intelligible order as are for instance the use of axial addition, repetition or symmetry. Transparency as organization of form produces clarity as well as it allows for ambiguity and ambivalence. The transparent organization of ambiguousness would seem a particularly useful way to create order at a time seeking emancipation from obligation, at a time of multiple and often irreconcilable conditions for a building, and perhaps contradictory expectations that ought to be met by successful design. A transparent organization of space has, because it allows and even encourages multiple readings of the interconnections between the parts of a whole system of related spaces, a built-in flexibility of use. Flexibility is provided and exists through possible interpretation, through flexible use of a supply of possibilities inherent in a given arrangement of spaces and not through physical flexibility of, say, movable partitions.
