Skyscraper: Achievement and Impact -- A Permanent Exhibition

自由科学中心位于前世贸中心的哈德逊河对岸，将开发、评估和安装一个8,000平方英尺的五层永久展览，展示摩天大楼的建筑设计和工程、物理以及与城市相关的环境科学。展览将使用一个垂直空间，其中包括俯瞰曼哈滕南部、前世界贸易中心和世界上最著名的城市天际线之一的景色。展览围绕三个基本主题区域组织，在摩天大楼的利弊之间取得了平衡。参观者通过摩天大楼世界进入展览，这是一个预先组织者，为展览搭建舞台，并确定通过其他区域的可能路线。建筑(第二层和第三层)阐述了摩天大楼的设计和建造原则，而生境和影响(第四层)则描述了摩天大楼创造的生态系统中的适应模式。面向曼哈顿天际线和前世贸中心的室外观景台(五层)为天际线规划提供了机会。什么是屋顶，屋顶花园和天际线时钟，辅以双筒望远镜观察细节，是使用天际线作为教学工具的互动程序。利用从科学中心看到的戏剧性的天际线，该项目将记录公众对摩天大楼不断变化的态度，并在一个五层的展览塔中分析游客交通和认路的模式。这次展览得到了LSC的调解公共项目的支持，以及LSC和当地学校的学校观众的体验。虽然“摩天大楼”主要是一种非正式的学习体验，但它与正规的在校项目有着重要的联系。

The Liberty Science Center, located across the Hudson River from the former World Trade Center, will develop, evaluate and install an 8,000 square foot, five-story permanent exhibition about the architectural design and engineering, physics, and urban-related environmental science of skyscrapers. The exhibit will use a vertical space that includes a view overlooking southern Manhatten, the former World Trade Center, and one of the most famous urban skylines in the world. The exhibition is organized around three basic theme areas and is balanced between the advantages and disadvantages of skyscrapers. Visitors enter the exhibit through SKYSCRAPER WORLD, an advance organizer that sets the stage for the exhibit and identifies possible wayfinding pathways through other areas. BUILDING THE BUILDING (second and third levels) addresses principles in the design and construction of skyscrapers, while HABITAT AND IMPACT (fourth level) describes patterns of adaptation in the ecosystems created by skyscrapers. An outdoor observation deck (fifth level) facing the Manhattan skyline and the former World Trade Center, provides the opportunity for skyline programming. What is a Rooftop, Rooftop Garden, and Skyline Clock, assisted by binocular telescopes for observing detail, are interactive programs that use the skyline as a teaching tool. Taking advantage of the dramatic skyline seen from the Science Center, the project will document changing public attitudes about skyscrapers and analyze patterns of visitor traffic and wayfinding in a five-story exhibition tower. The exhibit is supported by mediated public programs in LSC and by experiences for school audiences, both at LSC and in local schools. Although "Skyscraper" is primarily an informal learning experience, it has significant linkages to formal in-school programs.