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Section through the new school, clearly showing the shell roof of the assembly hall and the mural in the lobby
assembly hall, which will also be used as a covered playground, a gymnasium and for meetings and other functions of the Contractors' Association itself. In order to satisfy all these requirements, the floor of the assembly hall will be level instead of sloped. At its northern end there will be a stage and dressing rooms, with showers and toilets below. The west wall of the hall will only contain high windows, for the sake of privacy and to allow for the installation of certain phy- sical training equipment. The roof of the assembly hall is of shell construction, and will have no false ceiling.
The first floor will contain five class- rooms (each for 45 pupils), staff common rooms, a medical inspection room and a library.
The second floor will contain six class- rooms, staff common rooms, and a store. Ample lavatory facilities for staff and pupils are provided for. Altogether with the 12 primary classrooms and the kinder- garten there will be accommodation for
585 pupils.
The external design will be fairly con- ventional with large window openings to the classrooms which have been so sited The open
as to have a southern aspect. corridors on the north side of the class- room wing will have ceilings separate from the floor slabs; the narrow gaps thus formed between the two slabs will assist through drafts, and windows here can be left open even on rainy days.
Economy has been the keynote in the selection of finishes; the wall above the main entrance is faced with tiles, while other finishes will comprise exposed stone- work and stucco plaster, the latter in some cases coloured with Snowcem for the sake of effect; columns and fins for the classrooms will be finished with wash- ed granolithic. A feature of the interior decoration will be a mural on the north wall of the assembly hall lobby; this will be carried out in mosaic tiles, facing tiles and rough cast stucco and will be a sym- bolic representation of the Association's purposes.
The scheme provides for an extension of nine to twelve classrooms in a three or four storeyed wing running north from the classroom block. For this reason con- struction joints and steel bars on the end wall of the original building will be tem- porarily concealed. Provision has also been made for an extra floor, containing six classrooms, to be added to the class- room wing at some later date. Altogether the second stage of the project will cater for an additional 800 students.
The site formation work, which will have cost about $200,000, is expected to be completed before the end of the year. The building itself is estimated to cost approximately half a million dollars, and it is hoped that work will be finished on this by September 1956, in time for the new school year.
The architect for this project is Mr. W. Szeto. B. Sc., A.M.I.C.E.
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