The proposal is for the back of Pike Place Market. This backside is, for a lot of people, their introduction to the market; the objection has been that the area is too dark, too covered, that it puts people off rather than welcoming them in.

The wall that functions as the back of the market is on a sloping sidewalk; the wall is five hundred feet long- as the sidewalk slopes, the wall rises from about four feet high to about thirty-five feet high.

The proposal turns the sloping sidewalk into a stream of rushing water; the wall is turned into a wall of water that feeds this stream. A system of steel grating sits on the sidewalk and allows a person to walk on water; you might be walking downhill, as if you’re carried along by the force of the water- you might be walking uphill, as if you have to struggle against the force of the water. As the grating continues down the slope of the sidewalk, it splits in two, half of it continuing level so that it rises up the wall as the sidewalk slopes downward: you can rise above the ground and walk over the wall. Within the wall, some of the concrete blocks are removed to form hollows, sitting places, some for one person alone and some for two people sitting face to face: you can stop on your way up or down the road and escape inside the wall.

A system of searchlights moves over the wall, casting light through the waterfall and into the hollows.