There’s a very quirky and quietly hilarious book called Made in Tokyo that covers a sort of dual use or spliced architecture one readily finds in Tokyo. Places like a shopping mall under a highway or tennis courts on top of a warehouse. (The book is both in Japanese and English.)
> The buildings we were attracted to were ones giving a priority to stubborn honesty in response to their surroundings and programmatic requirements, without insisting on architectural aesthetic and form. We decided to call them “Da-me Architecture” (no-good architecture), with all our love and disdain.
https://www.amazon.com/Made-Tokyo-Guide-Junzo-Kuroda/dp/4306...
From the introduction:
> The buildings we were attracted to were ones giving a priority to stubborn honesty in response to their surroundings and programmatic requirements, without insisting on architectural aesthetic and form. We decided to call them “Da-me Architecture” (no-good architecture), with all our love and disdain.