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HONG KONG GOVERNMENT

PWD ARCHITECTURAL OFFICE

FRANK W. Y. HO-ASJOE

BRYAN J. WHITE

J. C. KU

W. M. HARRISON

PAUL Y. CONSTRUCTION CO.

clients

architects

project architect

quantity surveyor structural engineer

electrical engineer

contractor

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HILLSIDE site of 23 acres at the south of Lantao Island has been developed by Hong Kong Gov- ernment as an open prison to house prisoners serving sentences of less than three years.

Known as the Tong Fuk Short Term Open Prison, it was complete- ly designed and supervised by the Architectural Office of the Public Works Department. Work on the site started in November 1964 and was completed in December 1966 at a cost of approximately HK$9.6 million.

The prison comprises a total of 36 buildings, which may be broadly di- vided into three groups.

Group A. the prison departmental staff quarters, consists of four high grade quarters on top of the hill, five officers' grade quarters, 14 junior of- ficers' grade quarters and 75 married quarters for warders, together with barrack accommodation for 60 single warders with communal and recrea- tional facilities.

Group B, the administrative and working buildings, are clustered around the main compound. They in- clude: the administration block, two workshops, laundry and bathhouse. dining hall and kitchen, and garage.

Group C is the prisoners' dormi- tories. These are planned in 12 two- storey blocks, each with toilet and washing facilities and each housing

100 prisoners. One punishment block with ten cells is included.

The dormitory blocks, laid out in terraces across the slope down towards the sea, have no security bars on win- dows or doors and Tong Fuk, as an open prison, is built without perimeter fencing.

All the buildings are concrete wall-

ed and framed. The minimum amount of brickwork was used in or- der to cut down the cost of bulk transportation. Concrete aggregates were easily obtained from the original gravel pit used for the Shek Pik re- servoir scheme on Lantao Island.

To avoid piling and to create a pro- ject which blended with the natural

Prisoners' dormitories viewed from the top of the slope

View of the various buildings in relation to the general contours. The sea is to the south of the site

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