The Science Facilities organizes its services into three components: laboratories housed in a linear block along the site's north-south axis; classrooms and lecture halls located in a rectangular wing with gable ends running perpendicular to the laboratory block; and faculty offices situated in a cylindrical structure, visible primarily from the west.

The focal point of the facilities?the Commons?is a three-story, skylit polygonal atrium with a helical staircase. This space is intended as a place for informal gatherings and interchange among students and faculty. The facilities extensive mechanical equipment is incorporated in the attic of the laboratory and classroom wings.

The facades are finished with materials, colors and fenestration resembling other buildings on the college campus. The laboratory block and the classroom wing are made of ochre-brown local brick and laid in common bond with pitched slate roofs. The office structure is dark gray brick with a dome skylight of clear glass. The curved wall of the 150-seat auditorium, which emerges from the classroom wing, is clad with veined Kasota limestone laid in stacked bond.