The reoccupation of ruins along the northern edge of downtown Saint Louis and the Mississippi river is no easy task. The creation of Washington University in Saint Louis' International Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES) created a burden on space planning on their main Danforth Campus. The solution, a third campus reigniting the schools presence in Downtown Saint Louis, revitalizing the river front, and connecting all three campuses by use of the metro pedestrian tram line. The program is broken down into three processes of interdiscipline research and fabriction: THINK,TALK,MAKE. As well, the old architecture of the 1903 Laclede Power Station and the Peerless building are juxtaposed to a new architecture of monocoque steel structural system. The Laclede Power Building (TALK) acts as a mediator to the landscape and program to the East (horizontal landscape) and the landscape and program to the West (vertical cityscape).