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IBAT

風雨

BESAR POS

DINING

INSPECTOR

MASTER

ASST. CONTROLLER

LOUNGE

LIVING

DINING

KITCHEN

WATCHING

GALLERY

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FIRST FLOOR PLAN

MASTER RM.

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tection purposes. This narrow passage is built over the mail sorting area, re- gistration section and parcel section. It offers full privacy and has complete sound-proof facilities to enable the in- spectors to check and supervise the various departments at any hour through observation window panels (2 ft by 1 ft) with "one way glass” in- stalled on both sides of this passage at 10 ft intervals. Such observation can be made without being noticed by the staff. The access to the secret passage is from the Controller's room on the first floor, and also through a secondary stairway linked to an exit.

A spacious 20 ft high mid-level roof terrace, built over the public foyer, gives the building a clean and bold external appearance. It can be used also as a public balcony for view- ing parades and other processions pass- ing by the building during festive

seasons.

Quarters

The first floor mainly caters for staff activities. The canteen and kit- chen are equipped to serve the entire staff. Self-service counters with counter-rail-slides are provided as a time-saving device. The prayer room for Muslim employees is adjacent to the canteen, and features an ablution trough finished with colourful mosaic tiles. Also on this floor are three living units for resident staff and their fami- lies.

The building is finished generally with plaster on the external and in- ternal walls; some sections of the wall are in granite and exposed brickwork to punctuate the various parts of the building.

All public floors are finished in black in-situ terrazzo in geometrical patterns. The general offices and pri- vate offices are in vinyl tiles. Mosaic tiles are used for the prayer room, canteen, kitchen and all toilets. How- ever, the entire working area on the ground floor is finished in granolithic cement for hard-wearing traffic. All electrical and telephone wirings are concealed in conduits in order to leave a neat wall surface.

The building is of reinforced con- crete throughout, with corrugated 'Kliplok' steel roofing fixed on the steel trusses spanning the sorting area where lighting and ventilation facilities have been installed. Other portions of the roof are reinforced concrets slabs, finished in panel-roofing system for foot traffic.

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