HONG KONG'S first full scale
rehabilitation centre is nearing completion at Aberdeen.
The scheme, to be known as the Aberdeen Welfare Centre, will synchronise with the Government's overall re-development plan for Aberdeen.
It was proposed about four years ago, begun a year ago and should be ready for occupation well before the end of this year.
When completed, a small rehabi- litation centre at North Point cater- ing to several hundred people. will be closed down.
The Centre will consist of 11 major two to three storey buildings of reinforced concrete spread over a an area of about 188,500 square feet. The actual building sites total about 50,000 square feet.
About 2,000 men. women and children will be able to be handled at the Centre at one time.
They will include cured lepers. mentally backward and disabled cases, chronic invalids, cripples and the blind.
They will be housed in five dormi- tories, four of two storeys and one of three storeys Provision is made in the plans for another floor to be added to the two storey dormitories when further accomodation is needed.
Rooms in the dormitories will not contain more than 20 beds each. Toilet facilities with be built at the rear of each block.
Trainees will receive trade and craft instruction in two 140 ft. x 30 ft. two-storey buildings housing a total of 20 workshops and class-
rooms.
These two buildings, together with the administration centre and car park, will look onto a central square of lawns and trees.
Encircling them will be a road. again lined with shrubs and trees. This road will run off a new road being built through the area.
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ABERDEEN
WELFARE CENTRE
DESIGNED TO
CHEER TRAINEES
Administration officers will live in a building containing six Govern- ment standard flats consisting of two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a sitting/dining room and a kitchen.
Workmen, amals, and servants---- about 50 in all will
occupy a separate building.
On arrival at the Centre, trainees will be housed in receiving wards in a separate building also containing the Centre's dining rooms.
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Because most of the trainees will be physically handicapped many will be in wheel chairs special ramps will connect all buildings. The steepest rise planned is of only about 1 in 10.
Ramps to the dining building and training building will be covered.
The necessity to have all buildings on more or less the same level called for the hilly area to be completely flattened a mammoth task that took up $500,000 of the overall amount of $3 million budgetted for the Centre.
Almost 60,000 cubic yards of rock and soil had to be carted away.
Despite the need to economise and be functional. the architect, Mr. Chu Pin, of Kwan. Chu and Yang, has planned an imposing, neat collec- tion of buildings enhanced greatly by dividing lawns and playgrounds.
Mr. Chu has also co-ordinated the buildings so that all command a good view.
Lawns, playgrounds, views, pastel coloring schemes, all of this was done for psychological as well as aesthetic reasons.
It was realised if the trainees were cheerfully stimulated they would be well on the road to rehabilitation.
The main contractor is Lam Con- struction Company. Subcontractors and suppliers include.---
ASPHALT ROOFING: Sino-
British (H.K.) Ltd. PLUMBING: Sang Hop Plumbing
Co., Ltd.
ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION:
Hip Hing Electric Co. WINDOW GLASS: R. Corney &
Co., Ltd.
METAL WINDOW: Kam Mon
Metal Window Co., Ltd.
THE HONG KONG & FAP EAST BUILDER
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- VOLUME 18. NUMBER 1
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