Modern Buildings, Their Planning, Construction and Equipment, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from Modern Buildings, Their Planning, Construction and Equipment, Vol. 3: Part I, School and Hospital Planning, Part II, the Law of Easements The hall is entirely top lighted by means of dormers, with the exception that in each end gable there is a large semicircular window, the cloakrooms being kept low to allow of its introduction. The classrooms are all separately roofed, and there is a gutter between their roof and the schoolroom roof. While this con struction is economical, as enabling the central hall to be kept quite low, it has the disadvantage of forming a snow-trap in bad weather, which needs cleaning out with some care, - and even at the best of times any water which collects in a hidden gutter of this sort is always difficult to get away. Another very complete school on the same system is that now being erected for the Borough of Bexhill from the designs of Mr. H. P. Burke Downing, which are illustrated in Fig. 5. The plan in this case was selected from over one hundred submitted in open competition, and as it was approved without the slightest 'alteration by the Education Department, it may be taken as a model plan and worth a good deal of attention. The school is to be built in two parts, the infants' department being erected first, and the girls' department being afterwards added. Like the infants' school at South Shields, it is of one storey only, and on the hall system, and the hall, it will be noticed, runs almost due north and south, while every single classroom has left-hand light provided, and can Obtain direct sunlight at some time or other during the day. It is thus almost ideal in its arrangement, and it is a distinctly good point that the classrooms are almost all small, none of them containing more than 50 students at a time. All of them are planned with dual desks except one (the babies' room), and all of them are capable of supervision from the main hall. The infants' entrance is in the centre Of the complete building, and as there are 410 of these little Children to provide for, their cloakrooms are divided into compartments, so that all do not crush into the same place. Their entrance corridor turns in the usual way, but is very wide, and eventually they all enter into the centre of the hall under a gallery, their entrance being facing the platform and the head-mistress' room at the other end of the hall. The way in which the head mistress is thus given control of the place is well worth a little study, as is also the planning of a disconnected private lavatory and the stockroom. There is an exit for the infants to the playground quite distinct from the main entrance, for use during the intervals of playtime, when the children run out without putting on hats or other outer clothing. Over the infants' cloak room and entrance an assistant teachers' room is contrived, and also a gallery, giving them, like the head-mistress, perfect control of the hall, while the main entrance is placed thus also under supervision. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.