WBA was selected by an invited RFQ / Interview to design a new CUPT / Canopy / Campus Forum at the physical heart of an existing circa 80’s Medical Campus with an expansive view east-southeastward to the Santa Catalina Mountains. Inspired by ‘the classical definition of Forum and local definition(s) of Ramadas’ a continuous light-shade-rain canopy connects the Tucson Campus in a single, unifying gesture. Required to carry CUPT piping to all buildings, it was also designed to harvest rainwater with cooling shade that met Tucson’s dark-sky requirements at night. The 45,000SF program was various scales of Meeting Space, a Cafeteria / Event Space and Health & Wellness Center. As a Social Hub, the Forum / Forum Plaza strengthens connections across the 350,000SF Campus, linking visitor / employee entries along a central ‘campus street spine’ that opens directly into a-tiered-two-story-open-transparent Forum that continues to step down into a shared-outdoor-plaza, all focused upon the granite pinnacles of the ‘Catalinas’. The building envelope is mostly a local R20-post-tensioned-masonry called Integra, innovatively lapped as overlapped-mass ‘akin to pinnacles’ modulating optimum environmental performance for its entirety, which is windowless along one face, partially open at ‘campus spine’ and more open at ‘south facing’ face to harvest some ‘winter sun’ for heating as Tucson has equal heating & cooling days and just as importantly – ever-changing indoor / outdoor engagement with the site’s quintessential Sonoran Desert – for the health and wellness of the Campus psyche and its Visitors. We also proposed that the campus cafeteria honor Tucson’s UNESCO designation ‘as a city of gastronomy’ for the health and wellness of the body.