As a major interactive civic and cultural institution devoted to art and media, the 230,000 square foot Sen-Dai Mediatech Center is envisioned as a 21st Century interpretation of a Japanese Zen Garden, a traditional space for personal reflection and intellectual enlightenment. Building spaces, library stacks, and exhibition halls are treated as self-contained objects, clad in various metals and arrayed within a void space whose edges are defined by a crystalline framework of glass. An egg-shaped theater "floats" above the entry lobby and is linked to the exhibition space.