The degree project seeks to project a facility for the slow harvest of Hydrogen rocket fuel grown from algae. The facility’s slow harvest of Hydrogen coincides with the periodic return of Halley’s Comet; culminating in the launch of a scientific probe to study the comet and the solar system. Implicit in the facility’s programming is a cycle of growth, launch, and obsolescence.

Historical, environmental, and cultural inputs impacting the structure are mediated and processed by physical and graphic devices modeled on Space Race-era ephemera, including stamps, commemorative coins, wheel charts, and tourist photographs, to name a few.

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