The resources given in the acquisition and implantation of the university's campus were provenient[clarification needed] of the state's government, that allocated 0,10% of sale taxes and consignations[clarification needed] to the project's edification. The first buildings to be built on campus were the vivarium, a space dedicated to animal farming, that used to be located in the area which nowadays the Department of Nutrition and the Center of Health Sciences are located. The campus architectonic project's conception was made by a Venezian architect named Mário Russo.