Universiteitssingel 40 is part of the so-called Medizinische Kleinstadt (‘medical city’), an urban development plan by Ungers/Von Brandt. In this plan, the new buildings for this area are linked to each other and designed in harmony with their immediate environment. The linked buildings form a kind of city wall that serves to protect, as it were, the medical city behind it. This original concept was elaborated by Architecten aan de Maas (AadM). The ensemble of buildings erected between 1990 and 2001 at Universiteitssingel 40 consists of three substantial structures. The plinth is composed of three stories (one of them underground), serving such functions as parking, lecture halls, student dining hall, meeting spaces, various other student facilities and two entrances. The two rectangular buildings on the plinth have four stories. The west building, which is part of the ‘city wall’, is connected to Universiteitssingel 50 through a multilayer footbridge. The building houses all sorts of facilities related to the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, such as laboratories, classrooms, offices and meeting rooms. The east building, which houses the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, is situated just outside of the white city wall. This building looks much like a donjon, which in medieval times was a massive tower with residential quarters that stood apart from a castle.