Skyscraper: Achievement and Impact -- A Permanent Exhibition

自由科学中心（Liberty Science Center）位于哈德逊河对岸，与前世界贸易中心（World Trade Center）隔江相隔。该中心将开发、评估并安装一个8000平方英尺、五层楼高的永久性展览，内容涉及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，可以俯瞰曼哈顿南部、前世界贸易中心和世界上最著名的城市天际线之一。展览围绕三个基本主题区域组织，并在摩天大楼的优点和缺点之间进行平衡。参观者通过“摩天大楼世界”进入展览，“摩天大楼世界”是一个先进的组织者，为展览搭建舞台，并确定通过其他区域的可能的寻路路径。建筑（第二层和第三层）阐述了摩天大楼设计和建造的原则，而栖息地和影响（第四层）描述了摩天大楼创造的生态系统的适应模式。室外观景台（五层）面向曼哈顿天际线和前世界贸易中心，为天际线规划提供了机会。“屋顶是什么”、“屋顶花园”和“天际线时钟”是利用天际线作为教学工具的互动项目，借助双筒望远镜观察细节。利用从科学中心看到的引人注目的天际线，该项目将记录公众对摩天大楼的态度变化，并分析游客交通模式和五层展览塔的寻路方式。该展览由LSC的中介公共项目以及LSC和当地学校的学校观众体验支持。虽然“摩天大楼”主要是一种非正式的学习体验，但它与正式的校内课程有着重要的联系。

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.