This competition design creates a journey of nature discovery for both children and adults that links the mainland, Heritage, and Kingman Islands and their diverse aquatic and coastal environments.  Collaborating with Sim Van Der Ryn and B. Williams of Eco Design Collaborative, the project is conceived as a Living Laboratory—a model of sustainable design that makes natural processes visible. This strategy is anchored in the southern orientation of public spaces and the berming of the service spaces into the earth. This provides daylight and sun in the winter while weaving a seamless connectivity between landscape and building. Some of the innovative green technologies in the project proposal include photovoltaic power, living machine waste processing, geothermal heat pumps integrated with concrete floor slabs, air-cooling chilled beams above windows, sheathing and light partitions made from wheat straw oriented strand board, rammed earth walls incorporating on-site soil as building exhibit material, and a fly ash concrete mix cast with ecological footprints of indigenous species.