hill and "grow" out of the contours naturally.
Advantage has been taken of the contours to allow various changes of level within the buildings and create changing volumes through variations of floor level throughout the complex.
Residential College
North of the services building is the residential college for clinical stu- dents. It provides accommodation for 256 students in single rooms and six fellows in two-room flats. together with common room, medical society premises. recreation and cafeteria facilities.
Building Programme
The building programme, spaced over four phases, was designed to al- low for the completion of sections co-ordinated to the teaching cur- riculum so as to cater for the pro- gression of students from the basic medical science teaching through para-clinical to clinical teaching within the hospital.
The
First came the completion of the pre-clinical or basic medical science section and the commencement of teaching in anatomy, biochemistry and physiology in May 1964, extensions. comprising the medical library, lecture theatres, museum and multi-discipline laboratories completed in January last year.
were
Secondly, the completion of the para-clinical section and the com- mencement of teaching of pathology and the allied disciplines, including post mortem and mortuary. reached in May 1965. The central animal house
completed February this year.
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Steel louvres give a horizontal emphasis to the Department of Anatomy
of which are in fair faced work on the main hospital buildings.
While the buildings are generally traditional post and beam system structures, the tower block posed de- finite structural problems due to its great height and the necessity to take wind loads into consideration.
A diaphragm system was therefore adopted which consists of concrete walls rising the full height. parallel to each other and running across the width of the tower block at either 21 ft. or 311⁄2 ft. centres. in
The form of the tower is in a tee. the horizontal bar containing wards on either side. and the vertical bar. again with diaphragms but at right angles to those in the wards, contaning the 8 bed-passenger lifts, and all the teach- ing accommodation associated with the wards.
Third will come the completion of the main ward block and podium of the teaching hospital and the com- mencement of teaching of the clinical sciences.
The hospital comprises 28-bedded wards, radio diagnostic, out patients. accident and emergency ward, medic- al records and administration depart- ments. together with the operating theatres, central sterile supply depart- ment. central services building. pharmacy. cafeteria. housemen's quarters and nurses' quarters and training school. This phase is due to be ready by September this year.
The fourth and last phase will be the construction of the rehabilitation department, paediatric department with 80 beds, and maternity depart- ment with ante and post natal clinics (112 beds and 19 prematures).
It is scheduled for completion by early
next year.
Structure and Materials
Apart from driven concrete piles of an average depth of 50 ft. below the tower block, all other foundations are mass concrete. All structural work is in reinforced concrete, large areas
Far East Architect & Builder June, 1966
Materials generally have been
selected as far as possible because of their low maintenance costs, especial- ly externally where periodic redecora- tion is of considerable magnitude. However, a balance had to be achieved between a restricted budget and the higher cost of certain materi- als which have maintenance-free qualities.
Partitions are either plastered brick or timber framed and faced. Windows are galvanised steel or louvred. Roofs are metal decked, generally on con- crete slabs laid to suitable falls with insulating screeds.
Floors are ceramic, acid resisting. vinyl anti-static tiles with sheet vinyl in certain areas and grano-lithic
screeds in stores and similar areas. Ceilings are generally of softboard, or acoustic board, except for the opera- ing theatres which have double skin luminous ceilings.
Anatomy museum and link block to dissection room and laboratories
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