The Ralph S. O’Connor Center for Recreation & Well-Being Expansion creates a new face for recreation and wellness on campus, and uses its 15,000 sf of new build program to transform both inside and out to provide a new accessible and social destination for campus life. New program space allows for the offices of the Centre for Health and Well-Being to be integrated with the Recreation Staff to foster greater collaboration. New and renovated program spaces allow for the inclusion of a mindfulness/meditation curriculum, and encourage students to participate in a community of care. The expansion has expanded and reinvigorated the pre-existing programming of the centre; active programs space is expanded, and passive spaces have been introduced, to allow for places to meet or linger. The facility both enhances and benefits from the adjacent Bufano Sculpture Garden; a unique romantic forest on campus that slopes down toward the Stony Run valley. The facility addition purposely departs from the traditional quads found in the south campus in favor of a more connective and dynamic layout in keeping with the shift in building orientation of the north campus.