Corridor in the administration block
A bird's eye view of school that fits in the fan-shaped site
Far East BUILDER, August 1969
analysis therefore compared different structures on the same site.
The shape of the site governed planning of the components of the building and this planning had direct and indirect effect on costs according to the grouping - horizontal, vertical or isolated.
To prove his design, the architect submitted layouts for seven alterna- tives (Fig. 1). Of these, types 'E' and 'F' could be ruled out since neither plans left sufficient space for a reason- able open space for sports. Types 'B' and 'D' could also be eliminated as they were virtually identical to 'A' and 'C' respectively, but with curved front- ages that offered unnecessary difficul- ties in construction. This left a com- parison of types 'A' and 'C' with the proposed plan, type 'G'.
With type 'A' it was physically im- possible to plan four classrooms con- secutively with their longer walls (as- suming a classroom's dimension is 22 ft. x 25 ft.) having north-south orienta- tion. Therefore some classrooms had to be grouped together with the teach- ers' rooms, with their longer walls have east-west orientation. Permanent lou- vres would be needed in all classrooms facing west.
In type 'A' 50 per cent of the class-
37