This pavilion for Hog's Back Park beside the The Prince of Wales Falls in Ottawa encourages visitors to be observant of their natural environment.
The undulating form speaks to the formation of the falls, and the continual activity and flow and change of things even so seemingly constant as rock.
Deep panels with glass bottoms collect the leaves and debris that fall in the park. As time passes, this decay becomes rich soil, with all manner of bugs and worms and bits that fascinate children (and adults) watching from inside the pavilion. Change is seen days, weeks and years later, when the earth rises over the level of the pavilion roof. It is inevitably buried, as all of mankind's work will be.
To the everyday visitor, changes at the smaller temporal scale of seasons aim to bring understanding of the greater temporal scales that see mountains move.