HONG KONG
이
mar 1968
OI MAN HOUSING ESTATE
D. P. H. LIAO, B.Arch, Dip. LD (Dunelm)
housing architect
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"HE_Hong_Kong Housing Authori-
ty's tenth low-cost estate, which will be known as the Oi Man Estate, will have a total population of 41,583 on its 21 acres a gross density of 1,793 persons per acre.
More than 6,100 flats are to be erected on the site which at present forms part of the King's Park cottage resettlement area and is located on high ground overlooking the Princess Margaret Road, Kowloon. There will be 12 buildings, ranging in height from seven to 25 storeys.
The buildings are of varying types. On the steep slopes along the Princess Margaret Road will be five 25-storey twin towers with balcony access flats similar to those being built at the Authority's Wah Fu Estate. Five slab blocks of central corridor flats, 16 storeys high, will be linked by two low blocks to lend variety and contrast on the more level areas of the site.
35 sq. ft. Per Person
as
The accommodation will be divided follows: six-person 2,700 flats; seven-person 2,242 flats; eight-person 868 flats; and nine person 305 flats. Each flat will contain a living dining room, designed on a basis of 35 sq. ft. per person, with in addition a kitchen, private balcony and a toilet with WC and shower.
Other amenities will include five kindergartens, party-rooms, 38 shops arranged in a shopping precinct, and stalls for the sale of fresh fruit and vegetables. There will be open, covered and roof-top playgrounds, while a three-storey estate car park, built against the slope will have its roof designed as a children's play
area.
The car park has been planned
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integrally with the development to provide parking for about 500 cars
roughly one to every 12 flats and the Authority's policy will be to rent these to its tenants as time goes on and car ownership becomes pos- sible. In this way it is planned to maintain open space, unimpeded by car parking, for recreation and leisure activities.
Preliminary planning for the estate has been completed and the prepara- tion of the site formation plans is under way.
No date has been fixed
for site formation to start as the site is one of many being considered by the Public Works Department as a possible borrow area from which
car park
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Site layout
filling can be obtained for an exten- sion to the Kai Tak runway.
A tentative programme envisages the first flats being ready for occupa- tion by late 1971. The entire estate will take approximately four years to complete after site formation has commenced.
The capital cost of the project is estimated at about HK$69 million, of which the budget cost of the estate car park is HK$2 million. No further loans are being made to the Housing Authority by Government for this scheme so that the whole of the expenditure will be financed by the Housing Authority from funds arising from its rental surpluses.
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Schools
Schools,
princess
margaret
road
المد
military hospital
100
200
300
teet
355