I chose the name Artifact because the words etymology is the explains what the building represents. The muddled history of this lands Art and Fact. Different than most glass towers, there is a logic to each level of opacity. This Museum and cultural center dilates the people of NYC to the rich history of the people who came before as well as what was here before the people. Located in Brooklyn the reference point for the height of the structure is to the tallest point in the borough, which also happens to be the bloodiest location of the revolutionary war, Battle Hill. With this as an anchor point I deployed each program, carefully assigning each tier of history to its correct opacity. you enter through a long glass snake-like tunnel that brings you into a walled garden, which is only planted with indigenous flora. There is no human contact with the garden as it is a shrine to the past and the way the land was before. The tunnel brings you to the base of the tower, the second floor is another viewport to the garden and showcases the rich history of the flora. Jumping to the seventh floor, the most apt way to explain this is: the most well documented history receives the most light and the least documented gets the most and at the top the structure is open air.