Sited at Cape Canaveral – which along with most of Florida could be completely submerged in 50 years – sits the Arc. The building acts as both a gauge for rising sea levels and as an ever-growing record of life on Earth, preserving these records for a future made unpredictable by climate change. At the core of the building is a time capsule that allows Floridians to archive their history, whilst weather data collection devices scratch information into the capsule's skin. The project aims to create a picture of how the world will change over several hundred years, up to the point when the building itself collapses. This act will release the capsule into the sea, like a technological message in a bottle.