The Cooper Villa apartments com- mand an excellent view of the har- bour from Jardine's Lookout. The building set among natural foliage, is functional without being plain. Its simple lines are broken by pre- cast balcony railings, which also serve as sunscreens, and slightly pro- truding brick infilling.
COOPER VILLA FLATS
NOVEL, SPACIOUS AND ECONOMICAL
NOVEL architecture and aesthetic
simpleness enabled this apart. ment block near Jardine's Lookout, Hong Kong, (below) to be built
cheaply and spaciously.
The three-storey building, situated in Wilson Road (IL. 7675), was completed recently for the Cooper Villa Co-operative Building Society. Its cost per cubic foot was only $1.56.
This however includes an open parking lot and playground on the ground floor. The overall cost of the building, including site forma. tion, but not land cost, was $450,- 000.
Low construction costs were achieved mainly by using nothing but readily available, local material.
There are 12 apartments in the building six of approximately 1,700 suare feet and six of approxi- mately 1,383 square feet.
The larger ones consist of four bedrooms, living room, dining room, kitchen, servant's quarters and a work space. The others have a bedroom less.
Features of the building include.
louvred balcony railings of pre- cast concrete which also serve
sunscreens.
as
floor to ceiling windows all
around.
extra roominess achieved by protruding the nine-inch brick in- filling three inches from the rein- forced
concrete-framed
structure.
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