The project reflects its position on Portland’s Mt Tabor both in its architectural role as campus entry cornerstone but as touchstone for Warner Pacific’s location on a landmark so named and its biblical telling as the site of the Transfiguration. The Nursing Building is a tripartite configuration of two classroom wings and a plaza as forecourt to campus. Additionally, this composition alludes to the three constituents of the Transfiguration with the two wings as Elijah/Prophets and Moses/Law, and the forecourt space standing as Christ/Christ Transfigured. Additional allusion includes three tracery windows (at building commons vantages) per the three witnesses, the helical stepping of the tripartite volumes invoking metamorphosis, columnar bands invoking change of light, and stormwater channel as Nahor Tavor connecting Nazareth to the Jordan River.