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The Accommodation

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A perusal of the plans may

give

the impression of a great number of different types of flats; there actually only four main types many sub-types.

are

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·OPEN ACCESS

BALCONY

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-OPEN ACCESS

BALCONIES

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BALCONIES

family income

Sketch plan of a typical floor in the East Estate.

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Some have living rooms which double as bedrooms, others have living rooms and one to four se- parate bedrooms. Accommodation is for from 4 to 10 persons in flats with nett rentable areas of 270-640 square feet at rentals which it is estimat- ed will vary from $47-$100 per month, exclusive of rates and water. A child under 12 years of age counts as half an adult in these figures. It has been found possible to provide 1955 flats to house about 16,000 persons; this works out at approximately 2,460 persons to the acre. On

dollar the average, one per month rental will buy 5.96 square feet of nett living area taken within the external or party walls, and not including balconies or access bal- conies. These rentals, of course, may vary from the figures given if the construction costs should differ much from the estimates.

of $300-$800

per crete frame, however, has been SO month), there were two primary pro- designed as to extend the gross blems to be taken into considera- width of the buildings. A further tion in the design of the whole advantage of this design is that it The accompanying illustration scheme-firstly, every room. kitchen, allows for much more pleasing eleva- shows one of the standard flats to a W.C.. and possible curtain-made tions to the buildings, which would large scale. This 'A' type flat has cubicle should have outside air; otherwise present extensive flat and its entrance from the access bal- secondly, the main economies were uninteresting masses. not to be derived from cheap methods

design.

The Layout

cony directly into the living room 9'-6" by 9'-0", from which open two bedrooms, each 13'-0" by 9'-0" shar- ing one balcony; one bedroom ac-

of construction or from inferior finishes but rather by the solution West Estate will consist Of a U- of some basic problem in the general shaped perimeter block containing commodates two adults in a double on the ground floor six shops, a post bed and a child in a cot, and the office. the school and the school other, two adults in a double bed It was thought, after considerable health clinic, and three tower blocks and two adults or grown children in study, that the item to save on was connected by single storeyed blocks a double-deck bunk; in the the R.C.C. frame-to evolve a method along the northern boundary over- room, the two halves of the of using a slighter frame without looking the harbour; the latter will loss of strength would effect a con- contain an assembly hall and an siderable economy. In tall buildings, out-patients clinic.

the allowance for wind pressure re-

sistance increases the cost of the Central Estate will consist of one structural frame: the problem, long building containing eighteen therefore, resolved itself into plan- shops on the ground floor. ning the buildings so that the effect East Estate will consist of a U- of wind pressure could as far as pos-

block containing sible be ignored.

on the ground floor twenty-four To achieve this purpose, the

shops, the estate office. workshop and store, and 13 flats. In the cen- dividual blocks have been designed tre of the "U" will be three tower

in-

shaped perimeter

so that the gross depth of the R.C.C. blocks. frame is more than half the height

re-

of the buildings. In such circum- The tower blocks will have cover- stances, the effect of wind pressure ed shelters and play areas on their may be ignored in the reinforced

ground floors, while both the peri- meter blocks and the tower blocks concrete calculations under the

will have ten floors of flats levant regulations.

above their ground floors. The tower blocks will have open central wells surrounded by open access balconies with eight flats on each floor.

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The ingenious solution arrived at by the architect is misleading by its apparent simplicity flats on either side of the balcony are staggered so The area covered by the buildings as to allow all rooms to be provid- will be 145,420 square feet, including ed with windows and to provide ex- all concrete walls, single-storeyed cellent cross-ventilation in the in- structures and the rear access dividual flats. The reinforced con- covered ways to the shops.

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