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SIDE WALK
FOUNTAIN
TERRACE
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CLARE
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EATING
FOUNTAIN
TERRACE
SIDE WALK
DINING
SHOPS
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NEWSPAPERS, SWEETS
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SIDEWALK
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THEATRE
STREET First prizewinner's ground floor
The centre is an attempt by the Council to provide a building where the lower income groups can relax and take meals at low cost, and where, at the same time. they can purchase piece goods.
The site is surrounded by Cowan Street, Clare Street and Theatre Street, on about three quarters of an acre of land, rectangular in shape. The site is level, and is in a busy business locality.
The winning plan is a two-storey design. The conception is a rotunda. containing the small and medium eating shops, linked to a rectangular block in which the sales stalls and large eating shops are housed.
Two staircases from either side lead to the passageway connecting the rotunda with the rectangular block.
The 20 small eating shops are housed on the ground floor and the 10 medium eating shops on the first floor of a doughnut shaped building, which has a circular, open service yard at the centre. The rotunda is 96 feet in diameter.
The ground floor is surrounded by a terrace for dining and the first floor by a dining balcony.
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The 30 lock-up piece goods stalls are on the ground floor of the rec- tangular block and the eight large eating shops or restaurants are on the first floor. The large eating shops also have a dining balcony.
Ceiling height of the building on the ground floor and first floor is 10 feet 6 inches.
Each small eating shop in the central building has an area of 288 square feet. The measurements are 13 feet 6 inches at the front, tapering to 4 feet 3 inches, and 32 feet long.
Above the small eating shops are the medium eating shops, each with an area of 576
feet. The square measurements are 27 feet at the front tapering to 9 feet, and the length is 32 feet.
Each lock-up piece goods stall is 10 feet 6 inches by 15 feet, with a floor area of 157 square feet.
Each large eating shop, with a pantry, kitchen and lavatory, has a floor area of 1,155 square feet, and is 18 feet by 63 feet.
The design separates the pedes. trian areas from the traffic areas by placing the pedestrian areas raised podium four steps above the
on a
pavement level, where it is inacces. sible to vehicular traffic. The centre is designed to be easily accessible to pedestrians from all sides except Cowan Street.
The main entrances are informal and inviting in order to encourage casual strollers to enter the centre.
All the shops are easily visible from anywhere within the centre.
Service utility
areas (washing,
cooking, etc) are inaccessible to the public and kept away from sight. Rubbish disposal routes are design- ed to avoid public circulation areas.
Covered passages are so designed to provide continuous cover from any part of the building to the car park or street in case of rain.
The whole complex of shops is designed to generate a sense of busy. lively participation, the essence of successful bazaars.
Reinforced concrete floors are thickened with hollow-block infilling to avoid secondary beams and also to reduce sound transmission from the first floor to the ground floor.
The roofs are of reinforced con- crete, of folded-slab form such that they are structurally self-sufficient without intermediate beams. The folded slabs are arranged so that ceilings open up towards a gayer exterior, thus aiding
thus aiding ventilation. This roof form also helps give a bright effect to the Centre as a whole.
Roofs are finished with adequate insulation and bituminous felt water- proofing.
Walls are of brickwork, 4 inches and 9 inches thick.
Tie beams for the roofs are located at door heights so as to serve also as lintels to carry concrete gulle screens which are built up to the folded and slab roofs.
The plan was accepted by the Ipoh Town Council on February 1, subject to a few amendments, chief of which is that car parks instead of being in the basement will be on the road reserve adjacent to the Centre proper.
Tenders close on February 25 and work is expected to start at the end of March.
THE HONG KỌNG & FAR EAST BUILDER — VOLUME 15, NUMBER 5
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