The Bass Hill Multipurpose Centre is a "big box" that employs a refined usage of standardised building elements deployed in a contemporary civic building for the suburbs. Steel portal frames, corrugated cladding, sawtooth roofs and box gutters are elevated from banal industrialism to the suburban civic.

The south-facing sawtooth windows bring light deep into the building, supplying all upper storey rooms with natural and diffused light while avoiding excess heat gain. They also provide a clear identity for the complex - both suburban and civic. The sawtooths are angled towards the north, allowing for singificant solar capacity to integrated into the roof form and reduce the ongoing impact of the centre’s operations on the environment.

The ‘ground’ level, accessed off the main road, is predominantly a childcare centre with a raised playground over the car park below and a medical centre that fronts the street. Raised slightly above the road and side-walk and accessed by a series of ‘clip-on’ steel stairs and ramps, the main street-facing elevation is an expanded verandah space with fold-up doors offering a number of ways this verandah can interact with both the street and the rooms behind the facade. Utilising the slope in the land, tucked underneath is a large flat-floor multifunction space, reserved for a future gymnasium tenancy.