The building was originally designed to be full of steam and falling water and stood in a large concrete tank of constantly recirculating water. Our proposal replaced the steam with fish and the recirculating tank with a recycling wetland responsible for keeping the water clean. The project was imagined as a demonstration of the water cycle as fundamental to life, and our need to ensure that natural systems are sustained. The presence of water in the city, along with established trees, would dray birdlife to the building, a gift to the visitors to the science museum and the inhabitants of the city.