A two-story wing redefines the edge of the College's original quadrangle and contains classrooms and lecture halls at ground level with faculty offices above. A four-story wing containing instructional laboratories is placed behind, and parallel, to the classroom building defining the eastern campus edge. This organization also results in the creation of two new campus spaces: a quadrangle at the main entrance to the Science Center that is also used for commencement ceremonies, which in turn, leads to the "Court of the Sciences"--the space formed by the two parallel wings.

The lab wing is a flexible and heavily serviced systems building with intensive HVAC requirements and a modular repetitive organization that are not readily adaptable to contextual constraints. The classroom building, which is a more adaptable building type, acts as a mediating device between the lab wing and campus.

Wide breezeways cut through the classroom building visually connecting the science court and the main quadrangle. Individual classrooms may be entered from the science court and the quadrangle through a series of glazed porches. In contrast to the lab building, the classroom building is solely cooled by prevailing ocean breezes. It is passively shaded by large louvered overhangs, and is naturally ventilated by a combination of operable windows and rooftop exhaust chimneys.

The instructional labs are designed to accommodate the Departments of Physical and Life Sciences, including the individual disciplines of physics, chemistry, biology, microbiology, anatomy, botany, marine biology, and zoology.

The laboratory building addresses the College's requirements for flexibility by providing loft type space in repetitively serviced modules. Flexibility in the classrooms is achieved by providing a hierarchy of classroom types, which include two stepped-floor lecture halls accommodating 100+ students each and five 60-seat classrooms with a variety of fixed and movable seating configurations.