A contemplative retreat positioned in direct conversation with Liverpool’s water, weaving together architecture and identity to foster stillness and introspection through reflections of motion. The morphology is a tribute to the water, almost giving back to River Mersey as three islands float about a stepped well that floods to celebrate the high tides that come in. Following the museum-hotel type typology the building exists to not only create a temporal interlude but also attract. The latter is done via addressing the urban disconnect by creating a sanctuary for the people. For it to be in a relationship with the 3 graces, offsets needed to be integrated in the language. The volume had to make use of the symphony of how water makes its way back to the river. The project has allowed me to develop a philosophy which treats buildings as a poetic reaction to its environment.