The Plaza at the Los Altos Center is titled Puvungna Plaza, after the Gabrielino (Tongva) village and spiritual center sited nearby on the CSULB campus and the larger Los Altos area both of the same name. The conceptual plaza design incorporated art works referencing mythic and contemporary gathering spaces is titled The Midden and The Menhir. It is composed of thirteen key elements including The Midden area, the Split Mound, the Sound, the Grove, the Menhir, the Fronds, the Squares, the Columns, the Cirque, the Amphitheater and the Amphicpian. The Plaza is approximately 160 feet by 115 feet. A green belt perimeter, composed of slight berms and undulating hedges, is secured by a specimen tree at the corner and penetrated by sweeping entrances from the street. The layout of the interior takes its relation from a strong diagonal site line anchored at one end by a midden and at the other by a menhir. Entering the Plaza from the parking lot at the Southeast corner, one begins at the Midden, composed of an illuminated shaft revealing archeological artifacts culled from the construction excavation and a large up-right concrete foundation section from the demolished site. It proceeds past the store entrance areas through a passageway delineated by the two halves od a split and separated, 4.5 foot high, 30 foot diameter mound. At the center of the mound, in stereo, is the sound of cascading water (the volume is in relation to the ambient sound level in the plaza). Exiting the Mound, the site line runs through the Grove, an equilateral triangle 20 feet on edge, anchored at the corners by three pine trees and infilled with turf. The site line is affirmed by stone pavers with contrasting stone inserts. The line terminates with the Faux Menhir, a case concrete replica of the marble Menhir at the edge of the Amphitheater, near whose top scampers an enlarged replication of a California Newt. To the Southwest, adjacent to this site line, two interlocking 33 foot Squares define, in three parts, a tabled seating/eating area. Diagonally across from the squares to the Northeast, in companion to the Mound, is a shallow bowl or Cirque. This forms an amphitheater with raised terraced searing and is adjacent to a handicap access ramp. The Cirque is further defined by a circular set of six Columns that chronicle the notion of vertical from growth to the built. The columns echo faintly, in pattern and form, a ruin from antiquity, just as the Plaza as a whole alludes to the commonalty of all archaic/mythical space, and its progenitor, intelligent life.