the entrance through a large hall 1'6" above the living room. This living room is 25'0" x 15'6" and the main wall which faces south is practically all of glass, and has a large covered verandah from which it is separated by sliding French windows which, when open, unite the verandah and living room into one delightful area.
The dining room is 10" lower than the living room and is separated from it by a 6-ft. arch- way. The kitchen adjacent to the dining room on the same level can also be reached by steps directly from the entrance porch, and the servants quarters, which are on the 715.5 level, extend from this kitchen.
The two bedrooms, which are 3'6" above the entrance porch level, are accessible therefrom by means of a 5'0" corridor. Each bedroom has its own bathroom
BATH
KED MOON
PHOON ANCE
South elevation.
KARAGA
BATH
LEVING KOON
BED ROOM
DINING
EITCHEN
Plan of the building as if set out in one level.
with exceptionally wide French ing one built up of reinforced con- is one inch lime mortar and finally windows leading onto the verandah crete with tiles over, but the the Chinese tile finish.
The balustrades to the garden
on the south side of the bedroom, covers over the entrance porch, The main bedroom has three built the living room verandah and the in cupboards along the north wall, main bathroom are flat reinforced steps are of rough punched gra- whilst in the smaller bedroom two concrete slabs. It is interesting to nite surmounted by a 6" balus- built-in cupboards are similarly note the arrangement of these flat trade coping under which is a placed. A large dry room is form- slabs in relation to the sloping rendered trim for contrast. The ed from the extreme end of the roofs and the element of contrast floors generally in the interior of bedroom corridor, utilising space they bring into the whole design. the building are of parquet and the steps of teakwood, but the which would otherwise be wasted. There are a number of interest- floor of the enclosed verandah to
Although, in effect, the building tails. For instance, the roof of Travertine marble.
ing structural and decorative de- the living room is laid with 3/4" is a one-storey bungalow, the ar- the building generally is of 4′′ re- rangement of the various units in inforced concrete slabs, but over All exposed columns built of different levels allows for a small the living and dining room veran- stone for trim and decoration are study over the lower hall, and this dah the flat slab is of 7" reinforced of fine punch facing. study forms the uniting element concrete hollow tile construction. between the
and lower upper and levels of the house.
Over the concrete roof slab is a half-inch screed on which is laid The roof of the house is a slop- two-ply bitumen felt. Above this
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The Architect for the project is Mr. T. S. C. Feltham, A.R.I.B.A., and the General Contractors are Tak Hing Company.