The shoe-making shop.
The school itself is a three storey building, and at the present stage of development appears in plan as a long narrow block about 500 feet in length and 60 feet wide. It is spacious, light and severely simple in design. The front elevation has an east- north-east aspect.
The entrance, in the centre of the front of the building, comprises a large hall leading to a wide corridor which divides the left side of the block, and part of the right side, into two sections. To the left, there are two small offices, a waiting room, a tailoring shop 88 feet by 26 feet, a shoe-making shop 70 feet by 26 feet, a carpentry shop 36 feet by 21 feet, a machine shop 83 feet by 21 feet and a large store.
To the right, there are a medical room, an exhibition room, and a small office; most of the remainder of this side of the block is occupied by the printing department, covering an area of some 8000 square feet, and loosely divided into a typesetting room, a printing room, and a book binding room with a paper room
The tailoring shop.
partitioned off in the north-west dormitory 28 feet by 96 feet, and an corner.
apprentices' dormitory 35 feet by 166 feet.
At present some of the rooms in-
Adequate lavatory accommodation tended for trade instruction are being used as ordinary classrooms until all is provided on each floor. Cloak- the machinery and other equipment rooms are provided on the ground arrives and is ready for installation.
floor and bathroom facilities near the dormitories on the second floor.
Classrooms take up most of the Thirteen space on the first floor. classrooms, each approximately 21 feet by 28 feet, are located along the front of the building. On this floor there are also two small offices, a large teachers' room in the centre of the block over the entrance hall, infirmary, and a students' common room 80 feet by 34 feet.
an
Rooms on this floor are reached by
means of a wide corridor on the west side of the block. Much of the back of the building is, at this stage, not built over, but the flat roofs over the ground floor may be reached from steps leading off the corridor.
On the second floor, there are seven classrooms similar to those on the floor below, a small office, a pupils'
View of the printing department.
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There are four staircases in the building conveniently located for easy vertical circulation, one at each side of the entrance hall and one at each end of the block.
Future plans include a central wing of two storeys behind the entrance hall and a small three-storeyed wing extending from the rear of the north-
west corner of the main block.
The central wing will include a large assembly hall 45 feet by 110 feet on the ground floor, over which will be the chapel. The other wing will con- tain a covered playground, a dining room and an adjoining kitchen on the ground floor. On the first floor there will be a study hall, six small class- rooms, a dining hall, kitchen, pantry and store. Superiors' quarters and library, and servants' quarters will occupy the second floor. A laundry and a drying shelter will be located on the roof of this wing.
The building has structural walls of stone and brick, with reinforced con- crete floors and roofs. The walls are rendered externally with Snowcem; inside walls and ceilings are finished with lime plaster. Floors are mostly finished with cement, in some cases with Colorcrete incorporated in the mix. The two main staircases are paved with mosaic tiles. Steel win- dows have been used throughout the building. Some of the doors are of steel and others are of wood.
Construction was commenced on the 24th May 1952, and was completed in seven and a half months at a total cost of approximately $1,086,000.00. Architects: K. C. Chiu & Company. General Contractors: Dickson Con-
struction Company.
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