2 story research facility perched off a cliff mountains and cloudy blue sky in the background behind the building is a mountain forest and below is fog floor to ceiling glass walls with black steel framing lighting coming from the inside balconies out front large curved corrugated metal roofs hanging off the building an outdoor deck out front on the ground floor with a stair going upwards through a void in one of the roof forms to the upper balcony the site it sits on should change from steps to a more cliffside mountain formation add materiality to the building like wood and metal