Amity University is creating an innovative new campus for education on a beautiful 26 acre hillside site in Panvel, outside Mumbai, India. The campus is conceived as an integrated “fusion campus”, with an emphasis on 21st century learning environments and interdisciplinary education across its faculties. The fusion campus for higher education is conceived as two ribbons of program space – academic and residential – that zigzag on facing sides of a central spine of shared outdoor spaces. They rest on an expansive podium of shared academic and social space, with multiple courtyards carved out of it to encourage vertical linkages between activities. This core concept underscores the manner in which contemporary students engage in multiple activities simultaneously, and replaces the linear relationship between academic and residential spaces with a more fluid one to shape a 24/7 campus. On both sides of the campus, the design arrangement actively shapes courtyards, plazas and gardens of varied scales and functionality, and harnesses the ability of outdoor spaces to support the educational, social and civic activities on campus. Further, the forms of the buildings relate to the surrounding landscape of hills and plateaus.