Plaza to the forgotten war

Situated on a scene between the national mall and the dense urbanity of downtown DC, the plaza to the forgotten war commemorates the service of World War I American forces by creating a place that devotedly holds onto the memory of the tragic losses endured in the United States throughout the course of the war. Steadfast grid of 1166 illuminated bronze markers one for every hundred US deaths in the war immediately conveys the scale of the losses in a seemingly endless expense created by gently folded landforms. While resolving the complicated sloping boundaries of the site, these landforms also generate a series of vertical terrorist urban spaces that heighten the individuals awareness of their relationship to others.