An observatory for Walahalla Glades, North Rim Grand Canyon, Arizona

The perceptual experience of time in minimalist musical composition is analogous to perceptions of space in architecture. Time and space are elements people use to perceive an existence. The arts of music and architecture speak dualities in the language of perceiving time and space. Architecture can become the medium of the design of space, whereas music expresses the design of time. Minimalist composition, a music that was founded on the concept of appealing only to those of perception, becomes a music that is to be experienced. Music becomes the vehicle for a journey through the experiences of time. Using cyclical patterns of repetitive sounds, the "looped" music can guide listeners into inner enlightenment and discovery, thus allowing the experience to become a successive one. Like minimal music, architecture and its qualities are discovered through the successive experience of space in time. Where music transcends the ear through time, architecture begins to define the eye's understanding of space. The understanding of architecture as a whole could be achieved by the successive discoveries of linked nodes of space that cue experiences through the passage of time. Together, music and architecture function as mechanisms stimulating our journeys through time and space. An observatory as a vehicle could begin to make evident profound relationships admitting observations that provide images evoking the creations of both time and space. The acts of observing astral and contextual images can allow the viewers to discover an internal logic while ascertaining self-understanding. By contemplating the experience, it can allow the perceptions of the viewer's to reference their existence in the time line of all things. The facility is an astronomical observatory research lab located atop the Grand Canyon's North Rim Walhalla Plateau, Arizona. The facility will have public access for fifty visitors to enjoy both day and night celestial observations. The lab will have housing accommodations for a resident staff of four for the use of a ten-inch refractor telescope. The purpose of the facility is to promote and excite users learning through the perceptions of time and space.