This project was part of a six week design exploration into a massive existing site where an iterative and interpretive process around a found object would directly influence design criteria and presentation methodology.  The prompt is to create a hybrid program of our choice that would include a brewery and respond to the site at a minute or massive scale.  Rise Over Run attempts to navigate the functionality and cultural heritage of the site by elaborating on an existing stairway that cuts through it.  Instead of interrupting this stairway, this building proposes to emphasize and accentuate the stair, as well as the urban and cultural reasons for the stair's existence.  This generates a reactant, sloped green roof that contours with the rise of the new and old stairways throughout the site and covers the program of the brewery in a minimally intrusive way.