An interest in the rich and diverse urban quality – specifically individual buildings built up over time on the hillside along alleyways, forming interesting, intimate spaces, has been distilled into a language of alternating building forms and open spaces similar to intertwined fingers of two hands. Cascading striations of earth provide a foun-dation for the exhibit halls which are symbolic of rock and crystal outcroppings, each pointing towards another part of the city offering further character to the excite-ment of discovery. Programmatically defined groups of halls are penetrated intermittently by strips of outdoor space that descend down the hill from the science park to the eastern road edge.