An elevated laminated glass aquarium envelopes the ruins offering
transparency, insulation, silence and preservation. This biogarden is a dynamic
buffer-zone, open for water ballet or a swim through crenellations like ruins
in a fishtank.
Drawing back the acoustic panels in the auditorium reveals dream-like
refracted views of the NY skyline filtered through submerged ruins of the
original building.
The flytower serves also the amphitheater on the south, flanked either side
by glazed corridors. Studios with apartments atop open into this arcade
allowing artists to hawk their wares. The gallery terminates at the highest
point of the landscape, crowned by the community black box theater. A
geothermal loop naturally heats/ cools and conditions using water from the Hudson
River. This elevated preservation zone, self-supporting and all time-capsule-like
will remain long after the base erodes. Where aquarium slices through
stonework, calcium carbonate of Portland-Pozzolana waterproof mortar echoes the
shells of marine life it mimics.
Frozen in time, waterborne ruins will remain suspended dreamlike above as
the unprotected base erodes: a hydrologist's wet dream.