Our approach to the program of this project began by reorienting the primary axis of the site away from its notional frontage along a major commercial corridor, toward our inspiration and vertically organizing element being the topography of the site down to the water. The hybrid Restaurant and Livery function of the program is pulled well back and above the riverbank as we’re proposing to place it at the top of the hill, as a direct and visual destination. The ‘duck’ on a hill, if you will. The procession from the top of the hill (Restaurant) through the Livery is purposeful and deliberate to utilize the significant topographical change to encourage a pedestrian scaled journey down the hill to the dock. A series of stepped plateaus, framed by permeable wall-like elements, delivers the experience through framed perspectives to the river establishing a purposeful procession, top to bottom. Said journey, we imagine, is integrated with a deliberate but not distinct means of accessibility between the duck on the hill and the river launch.