University of Thessaly has been established in the university community, through the gained distinctions, the talented professors and the high performance of the graduates. The number of students and their needs have increased during the past few years, causing a lack of space and infrastructure to accommodate this crowd. In future plans, both the Departments of Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering are to be transferred to new facilities and be replaced by the Department of Architectural Engineering. This alteration results in a redundant building, which could cover the lack of useful space in the University community, such as the hosting of professors who live in a different city. Thus, we acknowledged the needs of the University of Thessaly, studied the disadvantages of the building and came up with the design, while maintaining the method “building within a building”, removing all the malfunctioning elements and adding vegetation and porosity. Therefore, the building “breathes” and creates a sense of a covered “square”, which can usually be found outside the urban structure. Our goal is to preserve both the memory of the Papariga building, by maintaining the metal shell, and the memory of the current building, by intervening mainly in the interior. Finally, we added a climbing plants grid that was designed and placed in many spaces throughout the shelter, in order to privatize the professors’ residences and create a ‘game’ between light and shadow.