BSPB Arizona, Biomedical Sciences Partnership Building Phoenix, Biomedical Campus
Biomedical Sciences Partnership Building, University of Arizona
Phoenix Biomedical Campus Facility, USA – design by CO Architects
Jun 23, 2018
Biomedical Sciences Partnership Building at the University of Arizona Phoenix
Design: CO Architects with Ayers Saint Gross
Location: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Biomedical Sciences Partnership Building (BSPB) at the University of Arizona Phoenix Biomedical Campus
The design of the 245,000-GSF Biomedical Sciences Partnership Building (BSPB) at the University of Arizona Phoenix Biomedical Campus is inspired by Arizona?s iconic, majestic mountains and canyons.

photos courtesy of The Chicago Athenaeum Completed in January 2017 and conceived as a singular complex alongside the Health Science Education Building (2012), the BSPB honors the region?s urban desert vernacular and geology established by its predecessor. But it presents a different physical interpretation of the tall, cleft, desert rock formations through a pronounced series of setbacks and projections.
Inspired by the deep recesses of desert cliff dwellings, BSPB?s sloping, shifting, self-shaded south façade rises 10 floors above the vegetated canyon wash, resembling desert escarpments.
Clad in folded copper panels, its striated texture is achieved by manipulating recycled copper, forming a beautiful and innovative cladding system that is most suitable for a desert climate. A sunscreen of sort...