Sited in the St Croix of the US Virgin Islands, this project pursues a large and multifaced casino and lab that deploys shifts in the composition of architecture in order to provide a heightened sensory awareness of surveillance and voyuerism. Physical and psychological comfort is provided by a series of surveillance theory inspired design devices, each of which encourages the development of the important psychological notions of self criticism, knowledge, power, comfort, discomfort, attachment, social normalcy, & curiosity. The building pursues architecture not as a top down strategy but rather as a bottom up, creating reactions before the catalyst.

St. Croix relying predominately on tourism as means for their economy has recently suffered a big loss by the closure of their oil refinery which was the main source of revenue for the island. The casino serves as a economic incubator while in the lab infused with the casino serves as a support space in and of each other. The players are unaware of the actuality of the program but rather assumes it as a hyper realism. Casinos and labs are extreme juxtopositioning programs and are therefore reliant on the use of surveillance as a common issue to generate reactions