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Government of India Department of Education. Occasional Reports Educational Buildings in India

1911

In fact to determine the exact dimensions and disposition of the furniture is the first task of the school designer before the design of the building itself is even begun. [...] In the ideally designed lecture-hall bank the front row will be placed at such a height above the floor and in such a position that a line from the eye of a scholar seated at the remote end of the row will strike the centre point of the lecture-table top at an angle of not less than 12°; the height of the next or any row may be found by drawing a line from the centre point of the table top at s [...] Therefore where a view of the table top is not a sine gull non the front row of seats may be placed on the floor of the room itself and the respective levels of the other rows found by a method similar to that just described using instead of the centre point of the table top a point r few inches below the face of a standing lecturer as the point from which to draw the rays that give the eye [...] But the necessity of aligning the building with the beach road and the position of the land available for extensions made the aspect and plan practically inevitable and the college is certainly among the coolest and airiest of the public buildings of Madras. [...] The roofs of the main and angle towers are in the form of a dome with copper gilded finials and the roof of the carriage entrance on the ground floor is groined.

education
Pages
329
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147337
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii unknown view
Preface
i-i unknown view
Introductory -Note
i-v unknown view
Colleges and University Buildings
i-56 unknown view
Schools for Boys
57-112 unknown view
Schools for Girls
113-124 unknown view
Schools for Europeans
125-137 unknown view
Training Colleges and Schools
138-168 unknown view
Technical Institutions
169-171 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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