Project Statement This work began as an investigation of the architectural space of Storke Plaza. The plaza, designed in the 1960’s, is recessed with three entrances designed for crowd control of student protests. Although located in the center of campus, Storke Plaza is now essentially a “dead space” where very little pedestrian traffic or student activities occur. This shift in function from a space built for public gatherings to a silent space with a few individuals is something I seek to explore in this work. In addition, the quiet meditative qualities which now exist in the plaza brought my attention to the parallels between the design and layout of the plaza and norms in religious architecture. From this I conceived of the project as a series of semi-abstracted rectangular plaster casting of twenty individuals kneeling. The installation creates a separate grid within the grid of the architecture. Each cast is lined parallel to the paving pattern, which also corresponds to the architectural proportions of the buildings in the plaza. From there the casts are shifted slightly to face in the direction of Mecca creating a new sense of directionality in the plaza space. This project seeks to create a new functional possibility for the space as area for consideration and discourse.