The idea of habitable space within the confines of an abandoned water tower brings to mind several notions about the rituals of habitation and the narratives between architecture, context, use, and alternative atmospheres. While a part of an existing urban context, yet is seen as a solitary figure of discarded spaces typically unconsidered. The water tower is less a 'natural' setting for occupation, and therefore gives itself much more readily to the contemplative setting of de-familiarization. Although the water tower does not de-familiarize the spaces and events that take place within, it does, nevertheless, de-familiarize our normal behavior and call to attention our own need to abstract what might otherwise be ‘natural’ activities.

The narrative between pictorial and programatic sequences, as well as the dialogue between architecture and landscape, become a forum for investigation into the intersections where function as imperative is transformed to fit a new set of meaning.