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(Above) View of the front of one the buildings. (Below) Typical first and second floor plans.
one unit.
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lcbby provides access to the drying room and one of the bathrooms as well. The amenities of these apart- ments have been considerably en- hanced by the covered verandan with which each flat is provided on the side of the building facing the sea. On the ground floor the verandah extends practically the full width of the flat with French windows leading onto it from the living room and the two bedrooms on either side. Upstairs, the verandah is somewhat smaller. extending only the width of the living room but with access from the main bedroom as well.
The layout of the four and five roomed flats required a lot of plan- ning and the final arrangement. complicated as it was by the need to reverse the usual staircase position, resulted in the compact grouping of room areas and the utilization of every spare inch of space. A careful study of the plans will yield the best description of these flats.
In the 2-roomed flats doors open to both bedroom and living room from the entrance lobby which, although miniature in size, still includes a clothes closet. The living room is 13 ft. by 16 ft., with the kitchen adjoin- ing. The bedroom is of moderate proportions and has doors leading to a drying room and the bathroom. Both the living room and the bed- room
doors have French
opening onto the covered verandah running the full width of the two rooms.
On the roof are four servants' rooms and large drying areas. These servants' rooms are intended for servants of the 2-roomed flats (for which no other accommodation has
additional servants from the larger flats.
The site, which is roughly triangu- which is in the centre of the building been provided), for watchmen or for lar in shape, is bounded by Island has been formed by eliminating one Road in a gentle curve to the east, bedroom from each of the flats on by South Bay Road to the northwest either side and combining them into and southwest, while R.B.L.177 forms the short southern boundary of the lot. It varies in height from 150 ft. in the southeast corner to 50 ft. in the west corner and 70 ft. in the north corner, so that there is a steep gradient over most of the land.
A driveway from South Bay Road leads directly to the entrance of each of the completed blocks and will also serve one of the contemplated smaller blocks. A second entrance drive, from Island Road, will later be form ed to give access to the other three projected blocks.
The servants' entrance is situated to one side of the main entrance. The curving driveway, which serves
This also provides access to one of these three buildings, sweeps around
the ground floor flats and to a second to the inside elevation so that access
staircase which opens to the small to all flats is from the main stairhall service verandahs on each of the at the back of the building, leaving upper floors. the entire front free from vehicular The servants' quarters, being set traffic.
on the same side of the building as the main entrance, have required Each apartment has an entrance special treatment in the planning. hall opening out from
the main The solution to the problems involved stairhall, and in this entrance hall the use of high screen walls to con- clothes and linen, with a door leading floor, and concrete trellis work to the are placed two large cupboards for ceal the service yards on the ground to the pantry and an archway open- service verandahs and stairway on The completed blocks are each ing onto the living room. In the the upper floors. This concrete trellis three-storeys high and are set in the ground floor apartments, there is west centre of the site, so arranged another door from this entrance hall work has been incorporated as an architectural feature on this eleva- that the aspect from the main living leading to the extra bedroom, but on rooms of the one is to the south, the the upper floors this door has been tion and provides a very original and other to the southwest and the third eliminated and an entrance provided interesting detail to the design.
from the stairhall through a small The architects responsible for the to the northwest; in each case giving lobby into the two-roomed apart- designing of Burnside Estate were a really excellent view of
Repulse ment.
In the large apartments, the Messrs. Spence, Robinson & Partners. Bay.
rest of the accommodation is reached The General Contractors were Lun through the living room. The dining Sang & Company, who also did the room opens
The off directly from the roofing, tiling and plumbing. living room and extends to the back Crittall Steel Windows were supplied of the house, and the two bedrooms by Dodwell & Co., Ltd., and the elec- are approached through а small trical installation was carried out by lobby beyond the dining room. This The China Engineers Ltd.
All three blocks are similar in plan, with two 5-roomed flats on the ground floor, and two 4-roomed flats and one 2-roomed flat on each of the two upper floors. The 2-roomed flat
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