What I am seeking in any project is at once its inner coherence, its intelligibility, and its relationship to the outside. I regard each project as a complete, self-enclosed world and, at the same time, as but a part of a vaster whole that can be linked to the physical place, the site, and more generally to the environment, but often as well to a whole that only the mind is capable of reconstructing on the basis of scattered elements. In this way, I often think of terminals as fragments of a larger all-encompassing system, and more generally speaking, I consider the wide range of projects that I have tackled as detached pieces in the dispersed body of the city.