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A Sense of PlaceThe “Health and Wellness Campus Extension” exemplifies the mission of University Medical Center through its emphasis on public health, education and outreach. Welcoming views, comfortable pathways, and inviting public open space extend graciously toward the surrounding neighborhood. Public view sheds within the extension benefit from picturesque panoramas of the Catalina Mountains. Community members access a variety of outdoor and indoor spaces throughout the “transition,” including: the gateway fitness center, health and wellness learning center, multipurpose recessed courtyard, community contemplation garden, children’s inspiration garden, and outdoor café. The prominent location of outreach facilities and spaces affords thousands of automobile travelers an introduction to the benefits of a UMC health visit while driving on Campbell Avenue.

A Sense of ConnectionThe “Health and Wellness Campus Extension” invites hospital staff, students, and medical professionals throughout the campus to unwind in the site’s vibrant outdoor social plazas and eating spaces. Nestled between major facility entrances these spaces include: the urban plaza, vertical café, light lounge, and recessed courtyard. Embracing the periphery of the transition, quiet contemplative retreats also encourage personal relaxation and rejuvenation. Once detached Human Resource facilities now bond with UMC through the establishment of common central open space, prominent pedestrian walkways, and unifying monumentation.

A Sense of WonderThe “Health and Wellness Campus Extension” provides an opportunity for healing as Diamond Children’s Medical Center patients and staff dream among the soft textures and seasonal colors of the desert grasslands. The landscape truly embodies the spirit of “inspiration” as fresh air fills the lungs, light winds conduct a symphony of swaying grasses, and gentle breezes cool visitors under the shaded canopy of oak and mesquite trees. Soft berms, large boulders, and whimsical abstractions of the region’s many plants and animals encourage play, unite the widespread extension and lead the landscape’s many users to various activities. An inspiration garden unites with the entrance of the children’s medical center and provides a safe and secure atmosphere for patients to connect with nature and wonder about the beauties of the southwest.

The “Health and Wellness Campus Extension” transforms the northeastern campus gateway into a walkable, restful, refreshing, and playful outdoor experience for patients of Diamond Children’s Medical Center, hospital staff and medical professionals, and the neighboring community. This therapeutic landscape encourages learning, activity, contemplation, and imagination.

Health and Wellness The “Transition” concept strengthens the onsite experience for all who enter the “Health and Wellness Campus Extension,” while also enriching the lives of those who merely pass by. This concept invites interplay between functional dualities, creating an invigorated multi-functional environment, blending the public and private, indoor and outdoor, urban and nature experiences. The central axis within the extension aligns the Diamond Children’s Medical Center with the major Campbell Avenue and Elm Street intersection. The Health and Wellness Center borders the outer edges of the axis and frames long, open views into the heart of the landscape.Imaginative monumentation corresponds with viewsheds and circulatory paths throughout the site, enabling visitors to tour the landscape’s many major and minor spaces.Automobiles may enter the site via the northeastern intersection in order to reach the emergency room, DCMC parking garage, or Health and Wellness parking lot. Passengers may also drive cautiously through the campus extension via the repurposed pedestrian-oriented Ring Road connection. This road unites the Health and Wellness Center with UMC through the use of sinuous materials, colors, and textures. Attractive pedestrian crosswalks adjoin the Ring Road connection at the northern and southern boundaries. These crosswalks unite major outdoor activity spaces and facility entrances.

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Health and Wellness The “Transition” concept strengthens the onsite experience for all who enter the “Health and Wellness Campus Extension,” while also enriching the lives of those who merely pass by. This concept invites interplay between functional dualities, creating an invigorated multi-functional environment, blending the public and private, indoor and outdoor, urban and nature experiences. The central axis within the extension aligns the Diamond Children’s Medical Center with the major Campbell Avenue and Elm Street intersection. The Health and Wellness Center borders the outer edges of the axis and frames long, open views into the heart of the landscape.Imaginative monumentation corresponds with viewsheds and circulatory paths throughout the site, enabling visitors to tour the landscape’s many major and minor spaces.Automobiles may enter the site via the northeastern intersection in order to reach the emergency room, DCMC parking garage, or Health and Wellness parking lot. Passengers may also drive cautiously through the campus extension via the repurposed pedestrian-oriented Ring Road connection. This road unites the Health and Wellness Center with UMC through the use of sinuous materials, colors, and textures. Attractive pedestrian crosswalks adjoin the Ring Road connection at the northern and southern boundaries. These crosswalks unite major outdoor activity spaces and facility entrances.

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The Health and Wellness Center serves as a bridge between UMC and the neighboring community. This unique 40,000 sq. ft. facility provides opportunities for the public to receive health education via seminars, conferences, and workshops. The Health and Wellness Center also serves as the core location for UMC Human Resources and Visitor Center.

The integrated fitness center on the first level marks the first impression for any visitor entering the hospital, and inspires positive thinking about health and healing. A corresponding physical therapy center provides space for hospital patients to exercise and rehabilitate, and extends out into the landscape offereing outdoor alternatives.

Nestled into the earth, the Health and Wellness Center encourages staff and visitors to take advantage of Tucson’s ideal climate and relax below a tree canopy in the contemplation zone or to take in the panoramic vista of the sky and surrounding mountains from the roof garden patio.

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THE VERTICAl CAféThe Vertical Café replaces the northern Cancer Center extension.

This 20,000 sq. ft. cafeteria provides a comfortable alternative to the UMC cafeteria and may relieve congestion within the interior of the hospital. The Vertical Café sits within two enclosed upper levels that

bestow a panoramic vista of the Catalina Mountains. This space could also serve as a banquet hall for formal gatherings. Guests may enter

the Vertical Café from an exterior second level walkway or through a glass hydraulic elevator within the urban core.

THE lIGHT lOUNGEThe light lounge sits below the Vertical Café and serves as a casual lobby and expansion dining area. The 10,000 sq. ft. open air lounge provides a comfortable gathering space near the entrances to the Diamond Children’s Medical Center, the new Cancer Center, and Surgery. The light lounge is distinguished by a vibrant sculptural abstraction of the sun and moon, which extends from the ceiling above. This colorful art piece reflects the colors of night and day through the careful and delicate placement of fiber optics and dramatic lighting.

CHIlDREN’S INSPIRATION GARDENThe Children’s Inspiration Garden encourages imagination, exploration, and discovery. The garden lays nestled among large climbing boulders and delicate grasses. This playscape stimulates all of the senses and promotes interaction between patients and nature. The Inspiration Garden invites children to interact with nature and features grassy mounds, a flowing sand box, and climbing boulders nestled in and amongst delicate desert grasses. Intermingled in this unique and exciting playspace are child-sized animal forms, sculptural abstractions of the animal silhouettes found throughout the interior of the medical center. The animals have hopped off the vertical plane of the colorful mural, which extends the garden up to the green roof above. This mural binds the interior and exterior experience and provides children the opportunity to interact and play with art. The vertical mural also provides an opportunity to display innovations in arid green wall design. Vines connect the green roof above with the children’s garden below.

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WElCOMING ENTRy SEQUENCEThe Health and Wellness Center highlights the open visibility and access into the Campus Extension, greeting visitors who approach from the Campbell Avenue and Elm Street entrance. The orientation of the center and its archway form establishes a direct view to the main entrance of the Diamond Children’s Medical Center. The gateway and recessed courtyard below give the UMC patient, visitor and neighborhood resident the experience of peering through a keyhole, into a welcoming, cohesive, campus-like setting.

REcEssEd community BREEZEWayThe Recessed Community Breezeway sits within the axis of the Health and Wellness Center. This open air breezeway and adjacent courtyards play counterpart to the Vertical Café and light lounge and provides substantial shade throughout the summer, while receiving winter sun throughout the afternoon. This multipurpose space may host a variety of functions and activity levels. The public courtyard is buffered on the southwest by a slope of playful buffalo grasses, which leads the eye to the entrance of Diamond Children’s Medical Center. The northeast buffer rises in contemplative terraces and provides a reflective connection with the desert grassland through several ascending pathways.

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GREEN ROOf AND GRASSlANDS lANDSCAPE The sweeping, extensive green roof, together with the desert grasslands landscape, create expansive, restorative views from windows at Diamond Children’s Medical Center. Instead of looking out across a sea of concrete and windshields, this transformed parking garage now offers therapeutic views to the natural world outside of the hospital setting. Gazing out at the whimsical animal silhouettes in this breezy grassland habitat, children and their families glimpse a preview of the delight and fancy to be found below in the Children’s Inspiration Garden.

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ExTENDING UMC IN THREE PHASES

PHASE THREE: STRENGTH IN COMMUNITyUMC opens its doors to the surrounding community with a health center dedicated to physical recovery and healthy lifestyle, partnered with leaders in regional-specific exercise science and dietetics. This new public gateway will also house expanded UMC administrative offices, including Human Resources and Recruitment.

NAMING OPPORTUNITIES:o Health and Wellness Centero Recessed Community Breezeway

PHASE TWO: OPENING VIEWSUMC’s vision expands as the Cancer Center port reorients to the horizon as an outdoor café, destination restaurant, and multi-functional programming space for children and adults alike. Hospital room views at DCMC and UMC are enlivened by the transformation of an asphalted parking garage into a whimsical desert meadow green roof.

NAMING OPPORTUNITIES:o Vertical Cafeo light loungeo Green Roof

PHASE ONE: INSPIRATIONAl ENTRyThe Diamond Children’s Medical Center joins the UMC family with the support of Tucson business leaders through an inspirational grassland plaza and garden of natural delights. Inscriptions within sculptural landmark features recognize donors for their generous support.

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Round buffalo grass berms serve as unobtrusive wayfinding elements that link various open spaces throughout the landscape. The buffalo grass embodies

the spirit of the desert grasslands while also promoting interaction with the site. These grass berms may serve as seating, or promote play.

The soft textures and colors may inspire children to run around them and roll across them, creating another

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Iconic grass sculptures dot the landscape in whimsy and imagination. These large abstractions rise resolutely as the most prominent form of

site monumentation. Reflecting the form of the desert grasses that thrive throughout the site, the abstract nature of the sculpture

encourages the viewer to dream and wonder. Thin grass blades rise to the sky above, dancing and swaying with

a gentle breeze. large seeds hang fancifully from the large stem.

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Grass berms with boulders reflect the heart of the desert grasslands while also representing strength and perseverance for hospital patients.

The stone monuments serve as signage and are associated with major site and facility entrances. The boulders reveal the names

of various building and spaces. These boulders also serve as naming opportunities for generous donors.

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Kinetic grass sculptures light the landscape at night like desert-inspired Chinese lanterns. While large sculptures may double as pedestrian and street lighting, those that sit closer to eye level simply induce various shades of warm amber glow. These lamps entice visitors

to interact with the campus during evening hours, to stroll through the many outdoor spaces while familiar lights

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