Hurley emphasizes this "standard technique" in his own assessment, suggesting that Wiens wants to do two tings: "to express in built form the horizontality of his sites and also to interrupt this horizontality visually in order to make his building stand out as an 'event'"; the "floating roof structure" serves as a "flag" which Wiens frequently enhances by sinking the base of the building into the ground as in John Nugent's Studio and the Silton Chapel.