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• accessed from above through the observatory and is a dead end until after gaining mini-sub Dolphin in land track mode
• a giant opening in the cliff is closed off by plate glass at the bottom 1/3 of the cave where the Giant Bonsai is
  

• as humanity has always done - we constantly struggle with the need to subdue the environment - to create a garden to be enclosed from the human and environmental elements and then curiously see it as a laboratory on nature - but this still doesn't detract from our attraction to just that
• As one of the underground sections, it will be popular at night as it is always lit up by electric power
  

• enclosed environment with giant bonsai tree (well it looks like one :) - chamber widens at base into 4 times width of top and looks natural like glass wall was just added to close off a natural cave opening 
• huge thick limbed bonsai has pulley platforms to elevate up and down - scientific experiments and instruments at top of platforms - takes a team approach to use pulley elevators
• halfway down spiral staircase a walkway extends out to a hole punched through the wall and projecting out of cliff - windowed room projecting from the cliff  - style it with  Nemo girder construction - he likes that girder and rivets thing - "its a control thing"
• supports for the giant bonsai tree in enclosed environment (is also a hint of controlling nature or binding it down if some of the supports wrap all way around the limbs) could be multi purpose - some you could slide down - easy to hide in the giant roots/shadows etc.
• envision limbs that snake off and cross over each other etc. - multiple paths that lead to different parts of significant areas of garden that participant can use up and down from the garden at tips of limbs
• bonsai should be in a total Japanese styled garden with pools, flowing water, rocks, sand, Koi, meditation spots, stairs etc.
• a waterfall spilling out of an opening in the cave wall with train style tracks mysteriously coming out of same opening and down the wall  - both are artfully hidden by landscaping and growth - only the sound of the waterfall gives it away - can't get to opening unless have mini-sub Dolphin on land track mode - later when you penetrate island by sub you can make it back this way - and then you you will go "oh ya!"

                                            next stop on the High Point Tour

• halfway down the cave the spiral staircase is disrupted at walkways that partially account for the diagonal shift in the cave at this point - so one walkway takes participant over the new center spiral downward into the bottom part of the diagonal cave - this part of staircase could be diagonal with supporting metal beams jutting from the cave walls
• the other walkway at the spiral staircase disjoint goes to a hole in the cliff that the observatory looks over - a glass, room sized Bay window type architecture projects out past the cliff
• as the participant descends - the fog clears - cave turns out to be vertically and diagonally aligned with opening to cliff in lower 1/3rd of vertical cave  - opening is enclosed with plate glass and that good old riveted metal reinforcement - so participant will descend a spiraling metal riveted staircase while seeing the glass cliff window and the jungle beyond and the reflection of the giant bonsai

EXTRAS

Bonsai Shaft

v      transforming into spiral staircase (crows nest occasionally) foggy/clouds with total darkness below - just enough lights attached to the stairs to glow in moss covered so they need to be scraped off by grabbing staircase and walking down - to show the dappled shaped ceiling dripping - entrance to staircase was opening of a pool until rotated to the staircase entrance - as you descend through the fog you begin to see lights below and start to a jungle develop below - then you drop below the cloud layer - rust and weathering on the stairs reflect the graduated level of moisture at each step in altitude with heaviest fog at the top- its a rain forest - continual splattering of rain on the spiral staircase at it winds in a huge diameter downward - below is a huge gnarled oversized bonsai shaped tree that is perched on a huge rock in the middle of a rain-forest/tropics - noisy with rain - rain gets noisier as you get closer - at top of ceiling/entrance into enclosed environment you hit a button at the end of the stairs that rotates the house back to normal position and this connects to the spiral stair-case so you can continue downward - this is a one way trip unless someone above hits the control in the cliff house - a room sized bay window projects out from the cliff into or over the jungle from which hippo tubes can be seen - halfway down from the cloud a giant window on the cliff side - bottom of stairs are totally overgrown - cave of course is just massive/site seeing - make the orientation of the glass so it can’t be seen from above at any angle - it should be a surprise seen either from corral area or from inside only - overhang may help with this - looking at overhang from the inside of glass would be cool and add more hugeness too visuals - boldness - massive

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v      fogging at top of bonsai shaft with rain drops

v      make bonsai from certain angles (well marked spots such as resting benches) into recognizable shapes

v      make bonsai shaft disjointed like a broken leg - so at he disjoint a horizontal cat walk and then into rock that spirals down one revolution and then spiral down on metal stairway and onto jumble of rocks – so form either side of the rock intersection you can see the path continues just on other side – visually see the continuance

v      don’t forget bay window  just above jungle at the disjoint– could show the water shaft and a minisub dolphin going up it with bubbles!!

v      carved stairway descending into metal spiral etc at half down to the bonsai

v      opening to bonsai shaft brings up lotsa fog from top of shaft

v       all together a real sense of altitude drop within bonsai shaft with sky boxes and stair through heavy fog at top to none at bottom

v      make the floor of bonsai enclosure very 3D with huge boulders and exposed roots arching as they go over terrain

v     A giant Asian cork carving in with bonsai enclosure - bridges and cork birds etc!

v      the sub dolphin attached to track becomes apparent when you see a second one floating on surface of water shaft or see one moving in the shaft from the bonsai enclosure with bubbles – mysterious and dynamic

v      make the condensation sphere by making skybox with real geometry as the very top above and including upper walkway!!!, then when at sea level you can see it from a window from bottom view with some machinery or hut thrown in or from halfway up

v      use wind as an audio clue to a hidden door or portal or entrance below the observatory

v      make a huge chasm over lava far below for a bridge to go over in the caves

v      staircase winds down and turns into steps and and then opens into the first cave by way of a descending metal spiral staircase

v      spiral staircase only extends down below top of cave a small distance - fogging used here with some diffuse light coming from below - can see another staircase descending from same level as if the 2 staircases should connect

v      stairs spiral in mid air down the center of the vertical cave

v      a participant can go up and see an overlooked switch at the initial entrance to the staircase that will rotate the observatory back to its original position and then the 2 staircases line up

v      halfway down the cave the spiral staircase is disrupted at walkways that partially account for the diagonal shift in the cave at this point - so one walkway takes participant over the new center spiral downward into the bottom part of the diagonal cave - this part of staircase could be diagonal with supporting metal beams jutting from the cave walls

v      the other walkway at the spiral staircase disjoint goes to a hole in the cliff that the observatory looks over - a glass, room sized Bay window type architecture projects out past the cliff

v      as the participant descends - the fog clears - cave turns out to be vertically and diagonally aligned with opening to cliff in lower 1/3rd of vertical cave  - opening is enclosed with plate glass and that good old riveted metal reinforcement - so participant will descend a spiraling metal riveted staircase while seeing the glass cliff window against the sky box

v      give the giant window some reflective properties

v      a giant opening in the cliff is closed off by plate glass at the bottom 1/3 of the cave

v      as humanity has always done - we constantly struggle with the need to subdue the environment - to create a garden to be enclosed from the human and environmental elements and then curiously see it as a laboratory on nature - but this still doesn't detract from our attraction to just that

v      enclosed environment with giant bonsai tree (well it looks like one :) - chamber widens at base into 4 times width of top and looks natural like glass wall was just added to close off a natural cave opening 

v      huge thick limbed bonsai has pulley platforms to elevate up and down - scientific experiments and instruments at top of platforms - takes a team approach to use pulley elevators

v      halfway down spiral staircase a walkway extends out to a hole punched through the wall and projecting out of cliff - windowed bay room projecting from the cliff  - style it with  Nemo girder construction - he likes that girder and rivets thing - "its a control thing"

v      supports for the giant bonsai tree in enclosed environment (is also a hint of controlling nature or binding it down if some of the supports wrap all way around the limbs) could be multi purpose - some you could slide down - easy to hide in the giant roots/shadows etc.

v      envision limbs that snake off and cross over each other etc. - multiple paths that lead to different parts of significant areas of garden that participant can use up and down from the garden at tips of limbs

v      bonsai should be in a total Japanese styled garden with pools, flowing water, rocks, sand, Koi, meditation spots, stairs etc.

v      a waterfall spilling out of an opening in the cave wall with train style tracks mysteriously coming out of same opening and down the wall  - both are artfully hidden by landscaping and growth - only the sound of the waterfall gives it away - can't get to opening unless have mini-sub Dolphin on land track mode - later when you penetrate island by sub you can make it back this way - and then you you will go "oh ya!"

• only one way into and out of enclosure is by spiral stair case unless you take the minisub dolphin tracks after gaining that navigation mode - but can see the jungle on other side of huge plate glass window - cool divisions
• imagine how the light sources inside the glass enclosure will play on all the bonsai and on the jungle outside at night
• later on in exploration of island the participant will find - further along the cliff going north-west are some animal corrals using the cliff as one side of the containment and parallels the symbolism of the enclosure of the bonsai - fits in with the development of the bunker complex and  maybe evidence of very small crops supporting Nemo's bunker complex
  

Keep Following the Trail..

First Stop after getting past the Cliff Rift  are Slave Docks