Terra Vivens Sanctae Mariae (The Living Soil of St. Mary)

TERRA VIVENS SANCTAE MARIAE (The Living Soil of St. Mary) PROPRIETARY

COSMIC SOULS OF SOVEREIGNTY INC. • 1 St. Mary Isle // Hydro-BIM • 44°20'24.8"N 75°55'41.2"W • St. Lawrence River

SURVEY REFERENCE PHOTOGRAPHY

Source material the Hydro-BIM geometry was modelled from // 1 St. Mary Isle

4 PLATES

The digital model in this viewport is a massing and systems reconstruction, not a measured survey. The plates below are the photographic record it was derived from. Where the CAD geometry departs from the photographs, the photograph is authoritative — the model resolves the building only as a schematic volume.

Aerial view of 1 St. Mary Isle showing the cedar house, boardwalk and jetty across the St. Lawrence River — Island setting, causeway and orientation

Establishes the primary datum for the whole model: the residence sits on the island's central granite knoll, reached by a single timber causeway from the mainland, with the deepwater approach lying to the east. The bathymetry and the channel position are scaled from the shoreline and channel relationship visible here.

LAYER 0 · BEDROCK & BATHYMETRY LAYER 1E · CRIB SEAWALL

Water-level view of the octagonal cedar house with its conical roof, wraparound deck and pilings — Cedar residence: octagonal drum, conical roof, pier

The principal source for the cedar facility geometry: an octagonal cedar-clad drum under a steep conical shingle roof, with a lower gabled wing, a wraparound deck, and piles carrying the structure over bedrock at the water's edge. It is the building the Soil Room occupies.

LAYER 4 · CEDAR LAB FACILITY PLATFORM +5.2 m

Exterior of the two-storey cedar house on its rocky point with boardwalks, dock and granite outcrops — Upper terrace, glaciated rock and dock interface

Shows why the model steps rather than slopes. Bare glaciated granite pluton outcrops surface directly through thin soil, forcing the contour tiers to break around rock highs and drop sharply to the water. It also fixes the timber deck and dock run — the berth and boardwalk extents in the model are taken from this plate.

LAYER 1C · GRANITE OUTCROPS LAYER 1A · CONTOUR TIERS LAYER 1E · BERTHS

Interior of the Soil Room: a circular cedar-panelled chamber under a ribbed timber dome with a ring of tall windows — Soil Room interior: the round timber chamber

The interior volume the exterior drum contains: a single circular room, wholly cedar-panelled, under a ribbed timber dome, lit by a continuous ring of tall windows around the upper wall. The cone-on-cylinder reading of the roof comes from this plate. The circular bench at the room's centre is where the rhizosphere test bed and soil instrumentation are read.

LAYER 4 · FACILITY VOLUME LAYER 1D · TEST BED

How to read this against the model. The model resolves the island as a systems diagram — bathymetry, five contour tiers, outcrops, the six engineered systems — and represents the residence as a schematic mass at +5.2 m rather than a dimensioned replica. Use these plates to judge massing, material and position. Do not use the CAD export for construction, and do not read precise dimensions off it.

Island setting, causeway and orientation

Cedar residence: octagonal drum, conical roof, pier

Upper terrace, glaciated rock and dock interface

Soil Room interior: the round timber chamber