The campus will include specifically designed research areas, labs, offices, and meeting rooms to engage researchers and the community, to learn how natural, cultural, and personal environments impact health. The ground floor will house a grocery store, food market place, and demonstration kitchen. Upper floors are each dedicated to various research areas, focused on the Envirome Institutes’ key focus of nutrition, sleep, and physical activity.

The project is a case for ways of focusing on building healthier cities, by restoring these structures and adapting them for the new future-looking use.  Key design elements included establishing connections to the outside via light wells and rooftop access at multiple levels and incorporating water management to lessen the storm water runoff.  Inviting nature into the urban landscape, the campus will highlight design that pursues sustainability under the LEED and WELL Building standards, focused on water management, biophilia incorporation, via a cliff-ecology concept on the addition, with integrated planters and recycled water irrigation.  Within the adjacent George Garvin Brown Garden, there will be subsurface storm water storage and a geothermal well system, providing the majority of mechanical system energy.