Probing the Depths: A sophisticated research station evokes a long-gone era while serving a modern purpose–the study of human beings' deleterious effects on our water sources.
The Elkhorn River Research Station could be mistaken for a rusting vestige of the steamboat days, left to disintegrate on the riverbank about 30 miles west of Omaha, like so many other industrial cast-offs. Clad in overlapping, Cor-Ten steel panels, with an asymmetrical roof, the station looks like the prow of a ship, or, from afar, like a preserved slice of a covered bridge.
But this minuscule, 70-square-foot, wood-frame “probe,” as architect Randy Brown calls it, has a very modern function. It houses specimen tanks, water-testing equipment, and room for a few researchers to work.
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