The boathouse is a result of the effects of the site; forces of land and water that combat one another for dominance, pushing along a central curved axis, where the building grounds itself and finds its natural balance. The programs shift to bring themselves either focused on the "land side" or the "sea side," where they settle and exist in a continuous structural truss system that only changes by the needs of the program. The "land side" and "sea side" programs alternate, allowing for the building to maintain a specific and tender balance that could only be found through this alternating relationship between the volumes of the program. 

 On the upper level, the central curved axis acts as a circulation zone, beginning at the existing road and bringing people of the varsity and community into the building through a mediating space that would either open the occupant to the water or push the occupant into the land as the path is traveled through.

Two points on the path lead the occupant into the varsity and community boathouse on the ground level, which act as two distinct moments of transgression between the land and the sea. The vehicles of the land and the sea travel along a similar path to the occupants, each travelling along their respected sides. The static existence of the building allows for the people to become a kind of active littoral outline that would unceasingly move with the changes of the tides.

   The enclosure system of the building is a series of representative layers. The volumes that find themselves shifting through the bays Of the truss system are solidly clad on its eastern and western facades, only allowing light to be exposed through its most extreme ends (the northern and southern sides), focusing the volume on either the land or the sea, depending on which side it exists. The upper and lower portions Of the datum are clad solidly as well, With a roof that follows along the chords Of the truss. The layer Of the roofing Of the volumes which find themselves set back within the truss follows along the specific grid set up by the truss, while the layer that encloses the volumes which find themselves at the most extreme ends of the truss begin to be effected by the end condition, breaking away from the grid and giving way to the forces of either the land or the sea. The layers of a seaside volume at the most extreme end of the truss would begin to break away from the truss by bending downwards, visually into the water, exposing the occupants to the open sea. The layers of the land bound volumes at the most extreme end of the truss, on the other hand, would begin to break away by bending upwards, reacting to the volume's push against the landscape, causing the space to lean back, avoiding a collision with the rocks of Baker Field while simultaneously allowing the rugged hill of the site to tower over the space.