The project began with an experiential concept, where a visitor, arriving by train, emerges directly onto the coastal landscape.      
  This conceptual idea is substantiated by Beach 44th Street station’s unique condition within the New York City subway system. On a city-wide scale, it is the location where the elevated subway comes closest to the natural coastline. Even within t
  The ramped platform is embedded within the particular topographic rhythm of the coastal landscape. Formally, it responds to the ground’s periodic undulation that begins underwater in the form of sandbars and slews and continues onshore as a seque
           
       
       
  Approaching the building from below the landscape platform, a visitor enters into a pathway that rises toward the preserve center. This concrete “snorkel” features discrete apertures, so that processions through this space is sequentially guided
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