of the Ridge under construction on the hills overlooking Deep Water Bay, Hong Kong.
g flat block has aluminium ain walling and high è steel reinforcement
at 600 feet above sea level and the top floors at 730 feet above sea level.
The high tensile bars chosen for the job have the advantage too that they are light for their strength and are made with two longitudinal and many transverse zigzag ribs giving strong bonding properties with the concrete in which they are embed- ded: no end hooks are needed for anchoring because of the higher bond strength, resulting in a con- siderable economy in the tonnage needed in a large project of this kind.
The Ridge faces south, overlooking Deep Water Bay, and from the two tops floors a view of Kowloon is also to be seen from the rear windows. Access is by an approach road from Repulse Bay Road, leading to a ground floor car park. Above this car park and landscaped grounds with a children's playground on a terrace level below the ground floor
car park, the two blocks rise twelve storeys with two flats on each floor. giving a total of 48 flats in the scheme.
Each flat comprises a living room with attached dining room, kitchen, three bedrooms (the master bedroom with its own bathroom-dressing room and the other two sharing a bath- room placed between them), two servants rooms and bathroom. and a store cupboard. A balcony pro- jects from each living room.
The facing sheets of the aluminium curtain walling of the front elevation are anodyzed and left in their natural colour. All windows are of the casement type in tubular aluminium sections, with vinyl strip lining he tween the glass and the frame, the metal being etched and chemically cleaned. The window frames are prefabricated and are shipped in a broken down state to Hong Kong
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where they are made up.
Aluminium bathroom doors are also fitted and the airconditioner ports in the bedroom walls are faced in tubular section aluminium protec- tive covers to achieve artistic uni- formity from the outside.
All service pipes are led out to ducts running down the rear walls of the two blocks. These ducts are also faced in tubular section alum- inium to give a decorative feeling to the rear elevation.
Aluminium is also used in the dressing room fittings and in framing for cupboards in the kitchens.
In contrast to the natural alumi- nium of the front elevation the rear walls are faced in glass mosaic tiling. Interior walls of the balconies are in marble, the floors in terazzo tiling and entry is through aluminiuni framed doors. All interior floors are in parquet.
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