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BUILDING EXTERIOR 73▲ 4.36 Business School, Öhringen, Germany, Gunter Behnisch & Partner, 1993. The mainentrance and the haphazardly orientated buttresses.▲ 4.37 A horizontal plate passesthrough the buttress without makingcontact.▲ 4.38 Olympic Archery Complex, Barcelona, Spain, Miralles and Pinos, 1991. Aimlesslydirected columns support slabs passing over the retaining wall.The 1992 Olympic Archery Complex, Barcelona, also disregards anordered and rational view of design and building. Where seen from theoriginal archery training fields, the buildings that now function as footballchanging-rooms exhibit haphazardly orientated roof planes and exposedstructural members (Fig. 4.38). Depending on their function, the trainingfield facilities comprise several different architectural forms. For example,spectators shelter under irregularly tilted and cantilevered concrete slabs,while changing-rooms and other facilities are enclosed. The buildings aremostly embedded within the bank they retain.