To create a legible building, the structure's form must describe and reinforce the mission of the organization that inhabits it.  This proposal for a regional competition, training and recreational aquatics facility demonstrates ideas of physical fitness through an exploration of muscles, cables, tension, joints, and bones.  The building is part of a larger urban strategy for redeveloping the Washington Channel waterfront in Southwest Washington, D.C.  Early images of transformed beach glass, thread, and basswood generated the inspiration for the basic architectural components:  the wall, the columns, and the suspended jewels.  The following document gives definition to the basic elements.