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WEST ELEVATION

SECTION 4 - A

NORTH ELEVAT LOIE

HIGI

DORMITORIES AND DINING SECTIONS ELEVATIONS

MORTH-SOUTH ELEVATION TYPE

WORTH - SOUTH ELEVATION FACING REAR

TYPE A

SECTION TYPE A

ting and a kitchen which will be di- vided into two sections, providing both Islamic and oriental/western food. The dormitory blocks are plan- ned on a 6-m grid, which co-ordinates at every fifth grid line with the 8-m grid which has been used not only for the central-area buildings but also for the covered ways and paved surfaces about the site; connections can thus be made between the two scales of struc- ture while using the more domestic scale for the dormitory.

Each study-bedroom will have a usable floor space of 2 x 4 m, without taking into account the space occupied by wash-basin, cupboard and other fix- tures. All will have a private balcony and these balconies will perform the additional function of giving sun pro- tection to the fully glazed external

Civil engineering building

windows.

The five staff houses for this first stage of building will occupy a land- scaped compound close to the en- trance to the site. Eventually two more will be added. The house will be arranged informally, though carefully planned with a north-south orienta- tion. Each will have its own driveway and private area, with a common land- scape of trees, shrubs and water.

Services

The site, typical of the flat and fea- tureless landscape of the Delta Region, is part of an area normally inundated each wet season. The consultant en- gineers Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Partners

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concluded that the most satisfactory method of overcoming this problem was a system of flood

protection bunds, with crest levels above the highest anticipated flood level.

This work, together with the con- struction of a surface-water drainage system to deal with rainwater falling within the bunded area, has already been made the subject of a separate site reclamation contract. The surface water collected will be pumped into a khlong system.

Sewage discharge from the various buildings will be collected by under- ground sewers and will flow by gra vity, either directly to the sewage pumping station in the campus ser- vices' complex or to one of the two sewer ejector stations that will be re- quired - one serving the dormitory complex and staff houses and the other the civil engineering and ad- ministration building. Sewage from the ejectors will be forced along mains to the sewage pumping station; from the pumping station all sewage will be pumped to a treatment works beyond the site boundary.

Water will be obtained from two boreholes within the site and will be pumped to the high-level storage tank

the campus services' complex. Mounted on a tower 24 m high, this tank will have a capacity of appro- ximately 590 m3 about one day's supply for the Phase I buildings and half a day's supply when Phase II is completed. The chlorinating plant will be at the base of the tower.

Electricity will be obtained from the Metropolitan Electricity Author- ity's mains a 230 kV transmission

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