How can the climate change led impacts to the water system in upstate New York  be archived? This project answers this question in two ways-through an experiental component of living quarters and through a scientific infrastructure for studying and shared climate change's impacts. The project calls for a series of satellite buidlings where sediment cores are taken, studied, and exhibited.

This process creates a continous archive of how increased precipitation and flooding changes soil structure, conditions, and brings in new pollution and effluent. Over time, these changes can be visualized through the static sediment cores taken. In the living quarters, residents are put in contact with the water as it moves through the landscape. Grated floors, pipes, and holes in the walls visualize water's temperment and movement through this unique environment, archiving climate change as the water changes in relation to the stable infrastructure of the building.

Through a system of cantilevers supported by cables, the building barely grazes the ground, allowing for maximum independence of water and soil movement. In years to come, this building core can be removed, barely leaving more than a small trough of what existed of this building.