Living museum of the bay : Chesapeake Bay Aquarium

Abstract

This thesis is the design of an aquarium in the industrial city of Newport News, Virginia The focus is a living museum that illustrates the diversity beauty and grandeur of a precious yet fragile estuary, the Chesapeake Bay. The thesis proposes by in creasing public awareness of the fragile tenure with nature, modern industrial society is the context, an industrial land scape is transformed into a Living/interpretive aquarium .