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APPROACH

STAGE

ASLEMILY

HALL

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TORES

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STAFF CLASSROOM KINDERGARTEN

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The main access is by way of a driveway which rises from the street to the level of the big main playground until it reaches the school entrance in the angle formed by the classroom and assembly blocks.

The lobby leads directly into the big Assembly Hall, glassed in on both sides from floor to ceiling. This can double as gymnasium and may serve at times for meetings of the Associa- tion. At one end there is a stage with the dressing-rooms, showers and toilets below. There is no false ceil- ing only the high arch of the shell above with glass ventilators at clerestory height keeping the interior cool and airy.

The ground floor of the classroom wing contains a kindergarten for 45 children, a primary classroom, and staff rooms, an office and the head- master's room.

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two characterized by deep vertical and horizontal sunbaffles. This part of the facade is separated from the adjoining frontal area of the main classroom block (which runs back at right angles) by a high projecting fin of dark colour carrying the school's name on both sides in large Chinese characters. The entire three storey wall to the right is occupied by an apt and artistically executed mural, with three main figures of a Mason, a Car- penter and an Architect grouped to- gether in appropriate symbolism This work is executed in coloured plaster, topped with a layer of "Snow- cem" of the same hues as the plaster it protects.

The entrance seen from the playground

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The natural slope of the site per- The upper floors have access The long north wing or main class- mitted the construction of a basement conies overlooking the interior quad- room block stands three storeys high level in which the handicrafts rooms and faces down the valley, its deep are situated.

There is a small play sunbaffles arranged in a pleasing grid ground at this level from which steps surmounted by a flat, slightly pro- lead down to the road, providing a jecting roof.

secondary entrance.

ASSEMBLY

HALL

SECTION

Section through the new school showing the shell roof of the

assembly hall and the mural in the loby.

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rangle. Both in these and on the interior wall of the administrative section above the entrance, decorative concrete grilles with a Chinese motif have been freely used.

The total cost of this project, which will accommodate about 700 children, was approximately $1,000,000. It will be operated on an entirely non- profit basis.

Site Formation Contractor:

Man Sing

Building General Contractor:

Yuen Construction Co.,

Plumbing Installation: Plumbing Co., Ltd. Electrical Installation:

Electric Co.

Lee

Choi

Sang Hop

Iu Cheong