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Without: Terraced round pools of pale blue water on a white structure above the clouds, with a tall plume of steam and small figures walking the rims at dawn.
Within: A sculpted white interior open to the sky, with palms and flowering vines, pools cascading down in steps, and many bathers.
Imagined with AI

The American Works · movement 01 of 06

Thermal

Heat made visible, and given away.

A terraced white plateau of warm pools, crowned by a cloud of its own heat.

Imagined with AI · a proposal, not a planned project

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Warm stone, glass and water · 480 MW · Snake River Plain, Idaho

A terraced plateau of warm pools, built over the machine halls in hot-springs country. Every watt the machines use leaves them as warmth, and here the warmth is the architecture: water carries it up through the terraces and out to the pools, where the town swims in January. Inside, a tropical valley of cascading pools sits under a vault of light.

Imagined with AI · a proposal, not a planned project. The place and the megawatts are the proposal’s own.

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