No_1_1956 — Page 15

NEW MARYKNOLL SECONDARY SCHOOL

Architect: Mr. W. Szeto, B. Sc., A. M. I. C. E.

Above, Architect's perspective drawing of the new building, with sile plan below, showing the shape and arrangement of the

SITE FOR ASSEMBLY HALL

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CENTRAL

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different blocks.

SITE FOR CLASS ROOM BLOCK

BLUE

POOL

ROAD

secondary entrance topped by a tall tower and belfry.

The school will have 18 regular classrooms occupying three floors in the Classroom wing with a covered playground, students' dining hall and tuck shop located on the ground floor.

Other educational facilities in- clude Geography Room, Domestic Science Room, Music Room, Library. Medical Inspection Room, etc. All these will be situated on the upper floors of the central block together with rooms for the teachers and the headmistresses.

The Administrative Office and the Headmistress's Office and Reception Room will be on the ground floor of the Central block. The main en- trance will lead into a spacious foyer which will be flanked by the Admin- istrative Office and the stair and lift lobby.

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For years the Hong Kong Mary- building is planned to fit in with the knoll Sisters were planning to erect contours of the site, and is a V- a new building for their Secondary shaped building with its apex placed

Assembly Hall, which will School as their present premises at on top of the culvert. Permission to have a total seating capacity of No. 140 Caine Road are old and un- erect a portion of the building above about 900 persons. will be provided suitable under the present day edu- part of the culvert was obtained from with a cantilevered balcony and cational requirements.

the authorities with the restriction large stage. The Hall with its teak- that no structural members of the wood floor may also be used as Я In 1954 the school was granted a building shall be within the 20 ft. gymnasium. Dressing rooms, show- site by Government with an area of drainage reserve.

er rooms The planning of

and sanitary facilities. 70.000 sq. ft. It is located on the hill- the building is such that the main which will be situated immediately side at the top section of Blue Pool part of the culvert will run directly veniently located for either theatric

adjacent to the stage. will be con- Road. Mainly hilly. the site was underneath the driveway. practically bisected by a gully, the waters from which are collected and The new building will consist of a conveyed by a Government covered school and a convent, the latter with culvert to Sing Wo Road further a chapel occupying the top floor of down. The design of the new school the building. The new building will building is made more difficult by a be formed of separate and distinct special condition of the grant which units, ie. the Classroom wing, the prohibits the erection of any building Central Administrative block and the

The Science facilities such 23 over a 20 ft. strip of drainage re- Assembly Hall and Chapel block. The serve along the covered culvert.

main entrance will be located at the Science Lecture Room, laboratories Central block while the Assembly for Physics, Chemistry and Biology As the layout plan shows, the new Hall and Chapel block will have a together with their ancillary pre-

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gymnastic requirements. A large storage space will be provided underneath the stage for collapsible chairs when these are not m Two trap openings will be provided on the floor in front of the stage for delivery of the chairs into the store

room.

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