The site is the lawn in front of a new State Supreme Court building; the building is a classic curthouse, columns in front and dome on top.

The proposal is that another Supreme Court building – a replica of the existent building, and half its size – be submerged in the lawn in front of the existent building. The trees and shrubbery on the lawn continue onto the roof of this other court – it might seem as if it’s being pushed down into the ground; under the roof, behind the columns, fountains rise to different heights, shooting up against the ceiling and through the dome and the open shaft at the side of the roof – it might seem as if this other building is rising, growing out of the ground. People walk down the sloping lawn and onto the roof; this other court might be used by people who have no place in the existent court; the proposal is for a people’s court.