built at Hunghom. Thus students from the dockyards, the textile mills and the offices will be able to find their way easily and cheaply to the new College.
"The new College is close to the water- front, which should give good pictures for its radar screens, and it will be adjacent to a residential centre so that the class rooms should meet with little interruption
from noise.
"With the funds now available the first stage of this project will include a class roon and drawing-office block able to ac- commodate approximately 1,200 students.
"Situated at the other end of the site will be a number of workshops, the dis- tance between the two permitting simul- taneous operation of classrooms and work- shops. When this stage is complete it will be possible to move all existing de- partments of the College from Wanchai to the new building.
"And when that has been done the pre- sent college building will be used by the Junior Technical School, thereby enabling the enrolment of the School to be doubled and the accommodation it now takes up at Gap Road to be used for primary school
purposes.
"It should also be possible to provide for a new Department of Textiles, for the expansion of mechanical engineering to in- clude production engineering, for the es- tablishment of а 'sandwich' course in
electrical engineering to provide electrical technicians and professional engineers when the demand warrants this expansion. for classes in commercial art and for in dustrial chemistry, the last named being of value to both the rubber and the food- processing industry.
"Further developments will be necessary in the years to come in order to reduce the number of students attending evening classes in outside schools and colleges where maximum efficiency cannot be pro
vided."*
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Notes on Design and Planning
small buildings. such as caretakers' economic reasons the finishes will be quarters: paraffin, petrol and paint left to show natural materials, with store, and an electric sub-station. some rendered panels for aesthetic reasons, and stone. It is hoped that Provision has been made for the the use of colours, the various tex- future addition of an auditorium to tures and patterns formed by win- seat 1,000 persons, a gymnasium, dows, doors, and solid walling will canteen, kitchen and students com- help to make this "brutalism" treat- mon rooms. It is hoped that this ment attractive without having to group of buildings will form Stage resort to expensive cliches. Two of the development. Further provision has also been made for the The single storey laboratory will extension of the main four-storey have a reinforced concrete frame and block with an administration wing brick panels, 5" concrete pitched roof and library adjoining. The addition with felt membrane finish, and hol- of further workshops has also been low concrete tile insulation. planned.
ar-
The Workshops will have reinforced The administration section of concrete frames with steel trusses to Stage One is later intended to be support woodwool slabs and a felt moved from the main entrance area membrane roofing. the trusses of the four-storey block and arrang- ranged to form a mono-pitch giving ed in an adjacent single storey unit, north lights. The walls will be of leaving a large area for foyer and brick. concrete or stone panels. exhibition space.
Notes of Interest
Accommodation in the main class- room block will include. on the
1) The buildings have been planned ground floor, the Administration and with a north-south aspect. as far as Building Department, and perhaps a from the sun. Fins and sunbreakers possible. to eliminate interference temporary library; on the first floor, have been designed for the south the Department of Mechanical Engi- elevation of the classroom block. The neering: on the second floor. the laboratory block is sited east-west. Department of Textiles, Industrial Chemistry, and Commerce and In-
this is protected by overhanging dustrial Art; on the third floor, the forms part of the future link between eaves and a covered way, which Department of Electrical Engineering the main classroom block and the and on the fourth floor, the Depart workshops. The future auditorium is ment of Navigation and Naval Archi- tecture. An outdoor instruction plat- form is to be provided on this floor the whole scheme. for the purpose of taking "sun sights" and azimuth bearings.
units, thus forming a focal point to to be constructed between these two
2) When planning the building, noisy elements, such as the Textile Workshop. were sited as far as pos- Building sible from rooms requiring quiet.
The Workshops are similarly divid- ed into three sections (1) (2) Mechanical Engineering. and (3) Texties with Industrial Chemistry. 3) The structurally lightest buildings All departments to be extended. in- were arranged on the poorest parts cluding the addition of Electrical of the site. Engineering.
Construction
41 Full consideration has been given to future planning. as related to the first stage.
The fact that the site is reclaimed necessitates the use of piles for the 51 All the workshops have easy
for heavy buildings. although it is hoped access
the delivery of heavy that this will not be necessary for equipment. Building to be erected initially will the single storev units. The buildings 6) A service area has been arranged. consist of a main four-storey class will consist of reinforced concrete having a control position but screen- room. drawing office and laboratory frames with brick, concrete, or stone ea from the main roads. block, including a temporary library panels. The four-storey block will be and administration offices: a single- rendered with contrasting finishes. 7! storey laboratory linked with a single- The workshops will probably be the Navigation storey workshop unit; miscellaneous most interesting units, because for instruction rooms has been provided.
A view of the harbour for the Department and Radar
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