The Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Simulation (CHIPs) is a University of Tennessee learning and research facility located in downtown Memphis, TN. The Center provides traditional classroom and administrative space as well as simulated healthcare environments to train students for real-world community crises. The urban location, on a small site tightly hemmed in by existing Brutalist and Neo-Gothic university buildings and a city park, required both stylistic and massing innovation. The final three-story design tied together the existing structures into a cohesive campus, critically responding to and complimenting neighboring buildings through the interplay of exterior materials and the planes in which the materials are utilized. The west elevation brick plane, in particular, lifts to reveal a ramped entrance that opens to the street, framing views of the nearby park and creating a front door beacon.