RADICAL RESTRUCTURING: The Conversion of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
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PETER ARTHUR DUBIN
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Architecture
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, Rhode Island
June 1976
Submitted to the Department of Architecture in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements of the Degree of Master of Architecture
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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RADICAL RESTRUCTURING: The Conversion of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
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by
Peter Arthur Dubin
Submitted to the Department of Architecture on March 14, 1984 in partial
fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture.
ABSTRACT
This thesis studies the restructuring of a vacant parochial school in
East Boston, Massachusetts, to 17 residential units of varying sizes.
It formulates a process for dismantling the authoritarian imagery of the
existing institutional structure and develops in its place a residential
This is
syntax compatible with the surrounding rowhouse neighborhood.
which
composition
fragmentary
additive
accomplished by creating an
Further, the
implies continuity with the adjacent residential fabric.
thesis addresses the need for major exterior intervention in building
rehabilitation to establish a dialectical association between the buildings enclosing form and its redefined context.
Thesis Supervisor: Rosemary Grimshaw
Title: Instructor, Department of Architecture
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Special thanks to Antonio DiMambro and Terri.
Dedicated to my father, my uncle, my great uncle and
the memory of my grandfather.
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Contents
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INTRODUCTION:
CONTEXT:
Radical Restructuring ..........-....................................................
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East Boston; Past and Present ........................................................... 12
EXISTING:
Our Lady of Mount Carmel School ...............-----------------------------------.
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PROPOSAL:
Residential Units ...........................--------------.........
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APPENDIX 1 :
Space Inventory of Our Lady of Mount Carmel School .................................
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APPENDIX 2:
Space Inventory of Proposed Residential Units ........................-------------..
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Introduction
(
W I' I IFegel
Worg
Ihenomenology of Spirit
1807
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"
. . . the spirit of the time, growing slowly and
quietly ripe for the new form it is to assume,
loosens one fragment after another of the structure
previous world.
This gradual crumbling to
of its
pieces, which did not alter the general look and
aspect of the whole, is interrupted by the sunrise,
which, in a flash and at a single stroke, brings to
view the form and structure of the new world."
Radical Restructuring
concepts
The
on
the
which have their roots
the course of this thesis,
in
Marxist
and
Hegelian
during
developed
suppositions,
following
based
restructuring are
radical
of
dialectical
of
theories
materialism.
Second,
ever
is
no structure
It is always developing
extent,
changing by growth and decay.
frameworks
can
remain
partitions
may
be
to
some manner,
in
state.-
a static
in
basically
Structural
yet
same
the
systems
mechanical
removed,
some
updated or furnishings removed or added.
any
First,
building
independent,
of
an
them.
forces may
seem to be
may not appear to be cause
to
Yet
it.
forces
of
it is
so obvious
is
It
ever-changing
interdependence
This
an
neither
object.
interdependent structures and
upon
and
within
fragment
slight
is
structure
distinct
a
nor
or
a
network
that act
structures
that
there
for calling attention
important
that
recognize
to
Third, there comes a point in the life of a building
a
when
place.
takes
restructuring
radical
vari-
After a long period of gradual development,
ous
pressures
major
upon
acting
intervention
a
structure
radically
that
and gives
structure's composition
force
alters
birth
a
the
to a new
course of gradual development.
while water is water one moment, changes in atmospheric pressure
and temperature may change
steam a moment
later.
So,
too,
with
it
to
buildings.
A structure that is a school today may be affected
by pressures
lation
such as declining birth rates,
shifting
policies.
and
governmental
popu-
desegregation
The
thorough to be- effec-
restructuring must be
tive.
Too
often,
building
in
rehabilitation,
kind of schizophrenic condition is
building's
interior
is
accommodate a new use,
sidered
sacred
and
created when a
drastically
and
altered
the exterior
left untouched.
a
is
to
con-
A building's
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exterior,
or form, must be reflective of a build-
ing's current
are
use,
or content.
interdependent
and
disassociate
the two is
This
proposes
of
thesis
a vacant
Carmel
undissociable,
the
residential
school,
located
sub-neighborhood
in
of East
in a
thesis
traces
Boston,
exists
then
today.
and analysis
contextual
Our
the
Boston,
of Boston, Massachusetts.
school
and
to
to deny reality.
parochial
School,
Form and content
In
Lady of Mount
Jeffries
a
of
to place
the
reference,
the
the historical
development
examines
neighborhood
the
Following
of the vacant
that
is
Point
neighborhood
order
frame
conversion
a
of East
as
it
description
school building which
precedes the proposal to restructure the building.
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jrt~ni ti
1711 ~nap
Context
Context
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H arbor Islands, fromn a 1711 mnap
Hejore landjill created East Boston
East Boston; Past and Present
East Boston was created by joining, with landfill,
During the 1600's
five islands in Boston Harbor.
the islands were mainly used as farm-
and 1700's
Since
land.
of
times
three
land
into
size
the
been
as an industrial
the
of
original
and shipping center where goods
transferred
and
ships
between
1880's.
Real estate speculators
class houses,
the
purchased middle
subdivided them and rented them out
to the immigrants.
a single mass
After 1835 East Boston began developing
islands.
were
and merged
leveled
enlarged,
have
islands
the
1830's
the
until the beginning of Italian immigration in
trains
connected to all the manufacturing centers
that
of New
After the turn of the century industry thrived in
residential
viding
jobs.
areas
immigrants
Foundries,
and along the
with
waterfront,
low-skilled,
machine shops,
low
mills,
propaying
shoe
and
garment factories were established.
England.
1850's
During
the
potato
famine
and 1860's,
in
arrived
Irish
large
fleeing the
numbers.
They
formed the bulk of an unskilled labor force which
extended
East
Boston's
railroad
systems,
built
its piers, and worked as stevedores on its docks.
After
1905
larger numbers of
began
arriving.
The
first
Italian
Italians
immigrants
came
by way
of the North End area of Boston,
but later immi-
grants
in
began
settling
directly
They were attracted by lower rents
space
than was offered by
East
Boston.
and more
the North End.
open
By the
1920's many families had set down permanent roots
After
the Civil War,
as
a result of
the
decline
in
the area.
Money
was raised
by
the community
of the wooden shipbuilding industry, East Boston's
to build two churches, our Lady of Mount Carmel
economy began a long decline that wasn't reversed
and St. Lazarus.
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14
The population of East Boston reached its peak, at
64,000,
in
the
mid
With
1920's.
implementation
neighborhoods.
Logan
Airport
today
occupies
two-thirds of the land area in East Boston.
of national immigration restrictions in 1924, the
population
began
to
level
off.
In
the
early
1930's a vehicular tunnel between East Boston and
downtown was
That
built.
construction
and
the
As a
result
has
construction of an expressway in the 1950's pushed
remains
a
thousands of families
population.
chants from their shops.
The population declined
steadily until the late 1960's when
it
stabilized
at around 38,000.
single
economic
has
major
the
born
Boston.
Most
occurred
during
traffic
volume
expansion
in
the
was
harbor
affecting
force
of
East
Boston's
development
Airport,
solid,
on
the
of
the
since
reclaimed
the
growth
1950's
increased
socio-
neighborhoods
1922
flats
of
and
the
the
1960's
dramatically.
of
Logan
of
East
airport
when air
Airport
been
relatively
its
ethnic
predominantly
However,
isolated
threaten
in
Italian
of housing
types,
life-
in
services
the
of
communities.
offer
East Boston don't
and
Catholic
stability
the
East
homogeneity
changes
current
tightly knit, family oriented
neighborhoods
growth
been
retained
patterns
style
variety
The
having
from the rest of the city until the 1950's,
Boston
from their homes and mer-
of
Most
a wide
and amenities
that many young families and families with rising
incomes
desire.
comprised
of
small
poor immigrants.
with
changing
East Boston,
Much
of
the
cramped
housing
units
designed
This often results
characteristics
to developing
stock
in
relocating
communities
is
for
families
outside
that offer
broader choices in housing and amenities.
accommodated not only by landfill
but
also
by
encroachment
into
Most of the housing in
East Boston is
made
up of
wood
frame
three
deckers
and masonry
rowhouses.
struc-
Only 5.1% of the housing units are within
tures containing four or more units.
Most of that
housing is extremely densely packed.
East Boston
as a whole has less than half the open space per
Jeffries Point, the
person than the city average.
neighborhood
School is
in
which
located,
is
Our
Carmel
of Mount
Lady
even more densely populated
are
two and
three decker row houses.
to the 1980 census,
of its 640 housing units,
were owner occupied,
little
Although
gentrification it
is
buildings were
the area
is
is undergoing
shifting from a lower
status neighborhood to a higher
Much of the area
status
divestiture
The Jeffries Point neighborhood
is
at the
located
have
location.
owned by Massport;
recently divestiture and negotiations
than the East Boston average.
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465 were renter occupied and
just under 90% of the residential
owner occupied.
According
occurred,
however,
for further
indicating
future
neighborhood stability.
southern portion of East Boston bounded by Logan
Airport and Porter
Street on the north,
railroad yards on the west,
the south and east.
Airport and
and Boston Harbor on
Not only is it close to Logan
the Airport Massachusetts
portation Authority station,
close
proximity
to
Conrail
Bay Trans-
the neighborhood has
the Maverick-Central
business
Our Lady of Mount Carmel school is
buildings which make up Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Streets
housing
types
in
Jeffries
in
Frankfort
the center of Jeffries
Street and Gove Street
Point
and Orleans
Point.
from
Carmel
Church and
of Mount
Carmel
Convent,
to the
Across
the school
are Our Lady of Mount
in use.
The predominant
at Frankfort
complex on Gove Street,
and Our Lady
district and the Maverick M.B.T.A. station.
one of several
Rectory
all still
On Frankfort and Orleans Streets adjacent
school
are
three
and
six flat
brick
row
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houses.
Almost all residential structures in the
area are
still owner occuppied.
Street
under
is a six story
industrial
Across
loft
Orleans
building,
investigation by developers as a potential
residential conversion.
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Existing
Cover sheet for Our Lady
of Mount Carmel School
contract document specifications
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A. D. 1929
SPECIFICATIONS
OF LABOR AND MATERIALS FOR THE
PAROCHIAL SCHOOL FOR THE OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL PARISH
TO BE ERECTED AT EAST BOSTON, MASS.
WILLIAM CARDINAL O'CONNELL ARCHBISHOP, BOSTON
REV. UGOLINO BIFARINI
RECTOR
Raymond C. Gorrani, Architect
Worcester, Mass.
GENERAL CONDITIONS
The Contract Document consist of the Agreement, the
the Drawings and
General Conditions of the Contract,
Specifications.
The Owner is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Boston
Diocese, Massachusetts, represented for the purpose of
erecting the School by Reverend Ugolino Bifarini O.F.M.
The Contractor shall be responsible to the Owner for the
acts and omissions of his subcontractors and of all persons
directly or indirectly employed by him or them in connection
with the work.
The term "person" or "anyone" as employed
be taken to include a firm or corporation.
herein shall
The term "Subcontractor" includes only those having a
direct contract with the Contractor and it includes one who
furnishes material even
though he does not
work.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel School
In the late 1920's Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish
paro-
began searching
for a means of providing a
chial education
for children of parishoners.
built
scheme
the upper
been
double
loaded
Our
front
the
Donald
McKay School was erected
the parish retained the
services of John Guarino,
a local architect,
with William B. Colleary,
consulting architect
Boston,
at
Gove
Streets.
plans
for a
formulated plans
and
Street,
between
No action
was
subsequently
C. Gorrani of Worcestor,
parochial
who,
of
school
services
Gorrani design.
to
the
back
the
Guarino
The
hired
Raymond
of Gove Street by creating a stepped
Massachusetts
to pick up
of
spaces
in
the
similar to the executed
A large auditorium fills
the basement and classrooms
most of
degrees
of
the skewed
Guarino plans accommodated
Gove
Street
stepped
organization
original Guarino plan is
corridor
ninety
the
the
building, making it single loaded.
Gove
schematic
the
pushed
rotated
basement,
the
classroom orientation
rectangular
and
to
down
with
parish
the
When Gorrani took over as architect he moved the
Orleans
the
a
the back.
at
and
taken
at
classrooms
clustered
spaces
around
organized
with
corridor
and
Guarino
original
the
are
Guarino
Frankfort
where Guarino had left off.
The
in
floors
service
and
the
between
that
is
designs
Gorrani
In
to become
After
School.
Carmel
had
school
of what was
east
one block
Lady of Mount
public
McKay
Donald
the
1925
however,
dissimilarity,
massing
Street
which
created
at
facade
maximized
a
Gorrani
facade.
Gove
Street
flush with
utilization
unified,
angle
orthoganal
eliminated
the
pulled
the
and
the property line
of
lot
quasi-symmetrical,
area
and
authori-
tarian front elevation.
are strung along the
Gove Street facade on two upper
floors.
A major
The design as executed
consists of a lower floor
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with
a
sixteen
high
and boiler
storage,
of
foot
eleven
foot
auditorium,
rooms, and
high
toilets,
two upper
classrooms
and
floors
teachers'
offices.
bush hammered
tar
and
large
and wire glass.
structural
system,
Company,
Stevens
Boston,
slab
is
a
by
Morrison-
Engineering,
Structural
Massachusetts
floor
designed
concrete
joist
construction with reinforced
of
and
concrete
columns and a 13 inch masonry wall with a 4 inch
red face brick.
A 6'-6" single loaded corridor connects classrooms
fronting
onto Gove
Street.
The
classroom
size
varies due to lot configuration but typically the
classrooms are rectangular with approximate dimensions of 25 feet by 32 feet.
Complementing
is
sills,
gravel
the
red
face brick
a cast stone ornamentation.
steps and platforms
on
the
facades
Parapet, cornice,
at entrances
are of a
lath.
built-up
institutional
ceiling
The
granite.
and
The
The
roof
roof.
double-hung
Inside,
four
ply
The
windows
are
with
steel
sash
the walls,
ornamentation
auditorium
is
floor
beam casings,
of
are
is
a
a
plaster
over
cementitious
surface over cinder concrete and the upper floors
are linoleum over concrete.
Both main stairs are
of steel construction with terrazzo treads.
Proposed school for
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
John Guarino, Architect, 1928
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Residential Units
is
following
The
a
for
proposal
radical
the
restructuring and conversion of Our Lady of Mount
School
Carmel
Included
units.
units
to
ranging
2374 square
in
an
aggregation
in
the
complex
from
size
of
Frankfort
houses.
seventeen
durable
are
feet
to
type from studio
feet and ranging in
contiguous
residential
square
593
are
tion
factors
the
convert
use
Beyond the general
housing.
the
First,
tors.
housing,
there
800 square
especially
is
in
rowhouses built
for
in need of
these
repair.
buildings.
specific
lack
of
genera-
available
units,
Most of
six
in
the
the nearby
flat
immigrants after
the century and contains
tenement
the turn of
small and cramped units
There are
Second,
the upper or
masonry
row-
residential
interior
950
of
a
construc-
structures.
classroom module
square
feet
lower floor
is well
two bedroom
of a
three
or
notions that both a
and
flat
to
both
and masonry
insertion of a one or
four bedroom duplex.
family-sized
three
or
the
to
Jeffries Point neighborhood.
housing
to
feet
are
on
was constructed
school
existing
building
Streets
for
from educational
a
is
the
school
concrete
flat,
are several
Boston area
the
to
the
surplus of schools and a shortage of housing exist
in
Third,
decision
precipitated
structure's
Orleans
appropriate
suited
Several
the
and
fireproof
Finally,
of
flat to four bedroom duplex.
to
the
few vacancies
structures
in
which
Once
housing
use,
it
was
chosen
as
the
structure's
was decided to utilize the rowhouse
new
typo-
logy as an organizational element, both internally
and on the
structure's exterior.
the housing
in
East
Boston is
in
Because
95% of
structures
con-
taining three or fewer units, and because all the
housing
is
adjacent
rowhousing,
integrate
borhood
to the existing
it
was
school building
considered
important
to
the new housing into an existing neighfabric
by
conceptually
replicating
the
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rowhouse systemization.
destroyed
and
replaced by
a
series
of vertical
elements.
The classroom module, into which either a residential flat or half a duplex unit fits, is reflected
Bay windows are employed in
on the
only
existing
bay containing
bay
of
adjacent
between
closely
The
to
the
fenestration
width
Further,
corresponds
detached
was made,
terms of a structural
two halves of brick piers and one
rowhouse.
pier
lated
in
fenestration.
corresponds
brick
facade
the
closely
rowhouses.
elements
were
used
a
width
to
Once
an aggregate rowhouse
and
of
width
strong
provide a repetitive
sense
of
verticality
reference edge which defines
the limits of rowhouse segments.
The cornice is
of
tinuity at
the symbolic
The
masonry
the
space
formu-
construct
and
reinforce the concept.
large
infilled with
tile
only contributes
building,
but
space
openings
between
have
rowhouses.
been
partially
over concrete block which not
to the energy efficiency
relieves
brings
the
building
bors.
Two
large
the
into
of the
horizontality
scale
with
comunal roof decks and several
terraces
ing
further break the massing of the new structure.
rowhouse
idea.
First,
bulk of the existing structure
in
such a way
instead as
tional
that
the
new
an aggregation.
horizontality
of
the
had
monolithic
building would
school
on Frankfort
and Gove
Streets
serve
to
to be broken
read
Second, the instituthe
and
its neigh-
There were two essential related tasks in developthe
but
broken at the brick piers, which creates a discon-
this discovery
to
a
typical
the
parti was
furnish
the design which not
had
to
be
There are
the
two areas
proposed
Orleans Street,
of major new construction
design.
which is
The
one
story
wing
in
on
somewhat dilapidated due
Our Lady of Mount Carmel School
Application for Permit to Build, 1929
to water seepage
in
the masonry
wall,
is
to be
razed and replaced by a four story addition.
new mansarded
fourth
floor
over the existing roof.
is
to be
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A
constructed
Evidence of the capabil-
q erit
f to 130id.
ity of the existing structure to support an additional
floor was
found in
a note on the original
structural drawings and on a note on the building
EXAMINATION
permit jacket.
The units are of three basic types.
units utilize the existing
mezzanine
level
floor and
ceiling.
in
Six
floor,
floor.
are
the
One
additional
and a new
the existing
levels are referred
floor and first
on
what
"k
was
the
to
floor.
second
the proposal as second
flat
is
located
on
the
Five more duplex units are located
original
constructed
the
located
also referred to in
third floor.
on
These
Five duplex
floor
constructed between
the proposal as ground
flats
first
OF1
third
floor
over what was
proposal,
these
and
the
levels
the
new
floor
existing roof.
are
referred
to
In
as
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Note from structural drawings
indicating potential for
additional floor
38
third and fourth floors.
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lower
the
duplex
units
a
has
separate
entry at grade, reinforcing the notion of separate
bedroom
The
townhouses.
grade
above
are
levels
create
to
located
a
visual
several
steps
privacy,
so one can see out over the street,
passersby are too low to see in.
living
are
spaces,
i.e.
The more public
dining
from
flight
one
down
located
kitchen,
but
and
grade
living
at
the
ground floor.
Two of the larger units have out-
door
terraces
off
from
the
separate
space.
earth.
One
bedroom-bath
All
living
the
of the
carved
rooms,
larger
suite off
the
out
units has
main
units have study balconies
a
living
overlook-
ing double height living rooms.
The
second
floor
unit
types.
three
two bedroom
units.
flats
are
the
They include
smallest
of
the
studio, one
and
Typically they have
living-
dining spaces publically oriented to Gove Street.
bays on Gove
The projecting
Street help to break
the living-dining room into two definable areas.
structure.
Creating
permits
reclaiming
most
The upper level duplexes are entered on the third
which
floor
living
possible,
kitchens
rooms.
dining
and
kitchen,
the
at
located
are
areas
public
more
the
contains
the
on
a
is
covers
a small
floor.
third
duplex,
but
have
have
the
and
study
Many of
studies which
potential
are
to be
building
street
space.
elevations
verticality,
and
a
are
of
serve
to order
the complex:
tripartite
down to
the
base,
flat
and
granite cornice.
both
open
to hallways
enclosed
and
served by one
at
systems
pattern
the
horizontal
overlay.
the
rowhouse
layering,
The
original
and granite belt coursings.
con-
of
two
as well as by a shared extelocated
square
which
by those stairways,
system
net
penthouse
Means of egress are provided
egress
units'
on
school structure has a base of rusticated concrete
existing stairways.
rior
a
diagonal
are of red
added
in
the
rear
of
the
the
The walls,
face brick and are
ing
the
new
of
above the
topped by a
The fourth floor which has been
proposal
completes
the
triumvirate of base, middle, and top.
amount
floor units
corridor
footage, and the building's efficiency.
Three organizational
verted to an extra bedroom should the need arise.
All upper
the
rear
escape
three
the stair
the units,
the
fire
center
the
gabled
skylighted,
units,
in
floor,
fourth
of
increasing
Wherever
floor contains bedrooms within a mansarded
Also
floors,
shared
of
The fourth
perimeter with a view of Gove Street.
the
the
floor
in
a
mansard
square footage has
classical
By enclos-
form,
a
large
been added without
substantially increasing the apparent mass of the
building.
The
lower duplex,
to
the
three
flat
elevational
and
different
upper
layers
of
unit
types
of
duplex, correspond
rusticated
base,
39
40
brick
middle,
and
mansard
top.
The
diagonal
facade patterning of masonry infill, balcony railings
and
cornice
banding
is
in
counterpoint
the vertical and horizontal forces.
and out of
the
face brick
plane,
to
It weaves in
tying
together
disparate facade elements.
In contrast to the ornate street facades, the rear
of
the
structure
is
less
formally
composed
and
more planar, as is the case with the adjacent rowhouses.
Windows on the rear elevation are larger,
to accept the southern sun and offer a view of the
foliage at the interior of the block.
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Appendix 1
56
Space Inventory of Our Lady of Mount Carmel School
The following is
an inventory of floor areas con-
tained within the various spaces in
First floor
Auditorium
Girls' toilets
Boys' toilets
Boiler room
Storage room
Stairs and corridors
Total
Total net (excluding
stairs and corridors)
Second and third floors
Classroom
Classroom
Classroom
Classroom
Classroom
Classroom
Office
Storage
Stairs and corridors
Total
Total net (excluding
stairs and corridors)
Building total
Building total net
4100
430
285
800
360
995
6970
the school:
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
5975 s.f.
700 s.f.
670 s.f.
865 s.f.
730 s.f.
725 s.f.
640 s.f.
155 s.f.
175 s.f.
1640 s.f.
6300 s.f.
4660 s.f.
19,570 s.f.
15,295 s.f.
57
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Appendix 2
58
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Space Inventory of Proposed Residential Units
The following
is
an inventory of floor areas con-
tained within the proposed residential complex:
Unit 1
Ground floor
Living-dining room
Kitchen
Half bath
Storage
Ancillary
First floor
Bedroom-study
Bathroom
Entry
Storage
Ancillary
Total
Unit 2
Ground floor
Living-dining room
Kitchen
Storage
Ancillary
First floor
Bedroom
Entry
Bathroom
Storage
Ancillary
Total
164 s.f.
72 s.f.
25 s.f.
94 s.f.
94 s.f.
270 s.f.
48 s.f.
90 s.f.
28 s.f.
40 s.f.
925 s.f.
446 s.f.
100 s.f.
80 s.f.
40 s.f.
175 s.f.
42 s.f.
40 s.f.
45 s.f.
100 s.f.
1088 s.f.
Unit 3
Ground floor
Living-dining room
Study
Kitchen
Breakfast area
Bedroom
Bathroom
Study
Storage
Ancillary
(Terrace)
First floor
Bedroom
Bedroom
Bedroom
Study
Bathroom
Bathroom
Entry
Storage
Ancillary
Total
59
470 s.f.
121 s.f.
110 s.f.
70 s.f.
130 s.f.
44 s.f.
160 s.f.
50 s.f.
94 s.f.
192
138
121
220
44
44
10U
106
160
2374
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
60
Unit 4
Ground floor
Living-dining room
Kitchen
Breakfast area
Study
Half bath
Storage
Ancillary
(Terrace)
First floor
Bedroom
Bedroom
Bedroom
Study
Bathroom
Bathroom
Entry
Storage
Ancillary
Total
367
126
65
67
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
22 s.f.
22 s.f.
40 s.f.
208 s.f.
158 s.f.
115
100
44
44
90
110
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
130 s.f.
1708 s.f.
Unit 5
Ground floor
Living-dining room
Kitchen
Half bath
Storage
Ancillary
First floor
Bedroom
Bedroom
Bathroom
Entry
Storage
Ancillary
Total
80
63
160
1265
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
Unit 6
Living-dining room
Kitchen
Bedroom
Bathroom
Entry
Storage
Ancillary
Total
295
110
118
44
54
42
20
683
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
312 s.f.
100 s.f.
25 s.f.
21 s.f.
106 s.f.
186 s.f.
168 s.f.
44 s.f.
Unit 7
Living-dining-sleeping
Kitchen
Bathroom
Entry
Storage
Ancillary
(Terrace)
Total
350 s.f.
80 s.f.
44 s.f.
55 s.f.
46 s.f.
24 s.f.
593 s.f.
Unit 8
Living-dining room
Kitchen
Bedroom
Bedroom
Bathroom
Entry
Storage
Ancillary
Total
312
74
178
166
44
36
100
86
996
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
Unit 9
Living-dining room
Kitchen
Bedroom
Bathroom
Entry
Storage
Ancillary
Total
390
68
187
44
60
30
40
819
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
Unit 10
Living-dining room
Kitchen
Bedroom
Bathroom
Entry
Storage
Ancillary
Total
Unit 11
Living-dining room
Kitchen
Bedroom
Bedroom
Study
Bathroom
Bathroom
Entry
Storage
Ancillary
(Terrace)
Total
61
256 s.f.
76 s.f.
137 s.f.
44 s.f.
35 s.f.
60 s.f.
60 s.f.
718 s.f.
476
145
212
130
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
150 s.f.
44
44
105
95
110
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
1511 s.f.
62
Unit 12
Third Floor
Living-dining room
Kitchen
Entry
Storage
Ancillary
Fourth Floor
Bedroom
Bedroom
Study
Bathroom
Bathroom
Storage
Ancillary
Total
Unit 13
Living-dining-sleeping
Kitchen
Bathroom
Entry
Storage
Ancillary
Total
Unit 14
430 s.f.
80 s.f.
70 s.f.
16 s.f.
50 s.f.
186 s.f.
152 s.f.
115 s.f.
44 s.f.
144 s.f.
65 s.f.
170 s.f.
1522 s.f.
350
80
44
55
40
24
593
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
Third floor
Living room
Dining room
Study
Kitchen
Entry
Half bath
Storage
Ancillary
(Terrace)
Fourth floor
Bedroom
Bedroom
Bedroom
Study
Half bath
Bathroom
Storage
Ancillary
(Terrace)
Total
225
140
132
138
75
25
35
110
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
182
140
136
110
24
44
70
150
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
1736 s.f.
Unit 15
Third floor
Living room
Dining room
Kitchen
Entry
Half bath
Storage
Ancillary
Fourth floor
Bedroom
Bedroom
Bedroom
Study
Half bath
Bathroom
Storage
Ancillary
Total
340
140
138
45
25
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
32 s.f.
180 s.f.
182 s.f.
138 s.f.
120 s.f.
115
24
44
44
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
124 s.f.
1631 s.f.
Unit 16
Third floor
Living-dining room
Kitchen
Entry
Half bath
Storage
Ancillary
Fourth floor
Bedroom
Bedroom
Bedroom
Study
Half bath
Bathroom
Storage
Ancillary
Total
63
310
121
30
30
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
40 s.f.
150 s.f.
180 s.f.
132
126
120
24
44
40
124
1471.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
64
Unit 17
Third floor
Living-dining room
Kitchen
Entry
Bedroom
Bedroom
Half bath
Bathroom
Study
Storage
Ancillary
Fourth floor
Bedroom
Bedroom
Study
Bathroom
Storage
Ancillary
Total
448
136
86
236
132
27
45
70
86
110
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
236
130
70
45
44
156
2057
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.
s.f.