No_10_October_1969 — Page 15

Site work saved on cliff edge school

Ground floor plan

Far East BUILDER, October 1969

COVERED

PLAYEROLSÓ

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GIVEN a flat site and a reasonable amount of open surround it is normal practice in Hong Kong to plan a school on an east-west axis so that classrooms can be placed on the north face away from the sun's glare and heat.

The 46,000 sq. ft. site of the new Concordia Lutheran School at Cloud View Road, North Point, falls at an incline of roughly 40 degrees and ends in a shear drop of rock cliff. An east-west location for the building would have involved a prohibitive ex- penditure on site formation work and the resultant structure would have presented an odd perpendicular form on the harbour landscape.

The school is therefore laid out to follow the site contours, with class- rooms on the east side and open corridors on the west where shade is provided by concrete overhangs at each floor level. Even with this layout, the steep fall of the site makes the fifth floor on the west face the road- level main entrance on the east.

This fifth level is devoted to the entrance and administration areas such

Gymnasium/assembly hall cantilevers 23 ft. over the west face

LOT BOUNDARY LINE

PROVE

17

stone

TYCKINOP

GROUND

Çovekto PLAYERQUERE

FLOOR PLAN SCALE

20 FT.

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