The focus of the UA TMA Center for Advanced Studies is to create a place where users can

advance their knowledge of the Sonoran Desert Landscape and urban environments in the

historical Presidio neighborhood with the goal of providing resource spaces centered around

exhibitions, community, and education. Through this programmatic lens, the architectural

design of the center will implement strategies that create a symbiotic relationship between

the user and the architecture. This relationship will be reflected through the use of circulation

as a means for carving with the human proportional system, implementing stereotomic and

subtractive spaces that invites users in the site, and the use of subtraction as a mechanism

for crafting views into the historic El Presidio neighborhood.