Completed in July 2006, Kohler Pavilion extends Oregon Health & Science University's existing South Hospital sited atop Marquam Hill. Form and mass create a gateway leading into the campus and act as a backdrop for views from the Willamette River waterfront below. A 75' terrain drop from north to south across the site allowed the concealment of a 450-car parking garage into the hill, below a reconstructed street. A stone clad 4-story D+T symbolic “mountain” base houses new ORs and entries; an 11-story bed tower resolves the inherent contextual duality. South elevations introduce coveted natural daylight and provide dramatic views through a floor-to-ceiling curtain wall; north walls, articulated with punched windows in campus brick and stone, face the existing campus. Cascading landscaped roof decks provide intimate healing gardens and public view terraces. The Pavilion integrates a 9th floor campus-wide “pedestrian superhighway” which links campus patient care and research zones and incorporates a new aerial tram terminus.