Replacing an underused public park just upstream from Battery Park on the Hudson, the challenge was to accommodate a range of small scale institutions that, in all likelihood, would be expected to change in composition over time, and simultaneously, to provide a new interpretation of the “park” experience - over and within the public areas of the site.  Further, a concern with ongoing defamiliarization: Can we imagine an architectural assemblage that remains alive as we use it day after day, that doesn’t disappear perceptually into the maw of habit?