 The rectangular pier at the end of the terrace affords another example.Viewed in isolation this seems to be simply another instance of Aalto’s desire to break the ‘artificial rhythms’ established by a regular grid, akin to the doubling and tripling of columns in the living room, but it is also an act as a visual and formal termination to the implied band of secondary circulation which runs through the door between dining room and terrace, past the servery wall which defines the entrance hall.By comparison with the sophisticated spatial composition of the ground floor, the upper or first ("second-U.S") floor is a relatively straightforward assemblage of private rooms.