The building’s façade features a trio of gently sloping saw-tooth roofs, as a reference to the town’s industrial heyday in the late nineteenth century when factories in the area employed this style of roofing — now subtly resurrected in the new design and reworked as a pale, dream-like memory. As well, these gently inclined roofs convey an aura of hominess and approachability, among other such vernacular features of similar iconographic value that the building draws upon. With careful attention to scale, the design creates the appearance of three large houses all attached or grouped together, rather than presenting a single, continuous, imposing, institutional structure. Here, the intention is to foster a sense of communalism for the building’s public identity through architecture that responds with sensitivity and awareness to the neighbourhood context.