The art center was designed for the 2004 ACSA wood council competition, which calls for a contemporary art center utilizing wood as an innovative building material. My design for an art center on the Erie canal at Lockport NY creates a cultural landscape as an extension to an outdoor natural green space. The juncture between programmatic spaces are not conceived as compartmentalization and separation, but rather in terms of intersection, extension, and mutation. Gradual undulating planes of a continuous outdoor-indoor landscape creates public access to the exhibition spaces throughout the center. Subtle transitions between various areas occur to blur natural boundaries and blend the context. An evolving flow of interconnected surfaces projects a infinite loop of circulation tying together natural and man made spaces. The massing of exhibition gallery is tethered just above the ground plane at the natural tree line re-purposing an existing canal wall for structure. A system of dynamic junctions are used to integrate and differentiate regions within the exhibition space. A new curatorial potential are realized using an array of possible routes throughout the art center.