NEW MEANS OF THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS IN NATURE

This project studies from the Acropolis of Athens and gets situated in the south bay tidal wetland in the upstate New York. Acropolis is primarily dedicated to the goddess Athena in Greek mythology. The means is to keep what is sacred inside. Original acropolis was not designed for pure aesthetics, but for good defense and to manipulate perspectives by precise proportion alignment and part to whole relationship. In this project of the museum of nature, natural phenomena provide the higher importance. Museums are oriented according to the landscape to demonstrate respect to nature. The experience starts with a ramp and is derived into three axes, air, water, and earth. The floating island celebrates the tension between human and nature. Visitors are forced to look at it at the end of all three axes, but only able to take a boat there at certain seasons. Architecture itself is like a petri dish. It is artificial, but neutral. It says nothing, but carefully curates fauna and flora in different scales, even water. With rising water levels, different exhibits become active. Bulkhead is the construction method used in structural elements, learning from piers in the Hudson river.