After reading an article about Biomimicry, I drew this diagram of my site and how nature side-by-side with technology might interject the manipulation of the industrial ruin in Castellammare, using the example towards the ended of the reading. If this is to be a multi-use establishment, as is the current course, and with sustainability being a primary principle then, according to this article, not only does nature need to be studied but the culture does to, as is the intention.
As was mentioned previously in a lecture by Richard Sennett, concrete is a very non-sustainable material due to the high level of energy require to produce it. However, once it is finished, as is the current state of the industrial concrete ruin in Castellammare, adaptive reuse of such "a waste of energy" seems to be a logical step. To counterbalance the material, or to effectively get closer to having a "zero environmental impact building," other more locally resourceful materials can be used and integrated to help support the notion that the building is an educational tool for learning.

Programmatic thoughts:
Most elitist juxtaposed against the conventional, activities and functions on site.

crew, personal boating: make, test, race, exist
geothermal plant
bio fuels
solar plant
solar energy
switch grass
tofu
fermentation tanks
solar panels-dock, warf
power plant in center of city
museum of city (as a resultant)
housing and bio-fuel "side by side"
self surviving eco system, self supporting but requiring the engagement of the city
clean technologies--> connect to city (2/3 brewery like, 1/3 gas station like)
ground level as porous civic engagement, museum etc.
geothermal vats above with pipes extending to earth below
corb.--interested in industrial aesthetic, not just that but now also about the industry
industry and architecture are co-spatial
power plant in the middle of a city "doesn't happen"