Located on a densly wooded site adjacent to the existing City of Auburn Hills offices, the new Public Safety Facility is designed as an assemblage of small pitch-roofed structures linked together and organized around a public lobby.  Some of these structures are clad in white “clapboard” siding to relate to the existing civic buildings while others are made of fieldstone or clad in ‘barn’ siding to relate to the recently completed library.  

The Public Safety Building contains police and fire administrative offices as well as a new fire station to replace the old Number 2 Station. The facility also includes an emergency operations center, patrol operations, prisoner processing and holding areas, evidence processing and storage, locker rooms, a firing range, training rooms, fitness center, apparatus garage and community meeting room which feature views over the wooded site.  The spaces have been arranged on two levels to take advantage of the sloping site and to reduce the size of the building footprint.  This allows for future expansion on the lower level while accommodating a challenging program and preserving many mature trees on this picturesque site.