Underlake Environment
Fallen Leaf Lake, Nevada
1968
Glass and stainless steel

This all-glass passageway crosses a 300-ft. length of Fallen Leaf Lake in the hills of Nevada. It explores one aspect of the “latent potential” of our environment by allowing the solitary visitor the opportunity to experience, at her own pace, a gradual descent via two glass stairways into a completely transparent and submerged chamber within a clear mountain lake. Here, surrounded by the waters and life forms of the underlake environment, it is intended that the visitor experience a calm and reflective atmosphere totally divorced from the usual hectic pace of daily experience.