The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-08-24
THE NEW PANA SCHOOL WATER FOR THE GARRISON THE NEW STEAM LAUNDRY STOCK
HANDSOME SPECIMEN OF OLD
MEXICAN ARCHITECTURE.
Latest Modern Ideas of Lighting and
Ventilating Embodied in the Plans
arrangements of Glass Rooms.

Arrangements VI OldSS bOOUlS.
The plans for the new school house
for the Palama district are being pre-
pared by Ripley g. Dickey, the archi-
tects, and bids will soon be asked for
the erection of the building. They
show a handsome structure of the
| Spanish-MeXican style of architecture
so much in vogue in the principal ci-
ties of Florida.
The building will be two stories in
height, built of brick and succeed
with cement, the trimmings being of
ornamental red brick. 1t will be
built on the Reform school lot, mallai
| of and facing King street. The out
/ side dimensions will be 60X124 feet,
and there will be twelve class rooms.
The plan of both floors will be the
same, there being two class rooms
21X34 feet and four 25X30 feet on each
floor. The roof will be of red cedar
shingles and extending six feet over
| the ewes. There will be no building
like it in Honolulu, the handsome Ir-
win stables being the nearest to it IN
| appearance.
The full length of the building will
front on King street. The main en-
trance consists of three open arches
entering upon lanai 22X3O feet, on
either side of which are doors leading
into rooms, 10hX21 feet, designed for
a library and principals rooms also
entering into the corridor. The large
lanai opens directly into the corridor,
II feet wide, extending from end to
end of the building. At each end of
the corridor are stairs leading to the
upper story. thus affording plenty of
means of exit in case of danger.
In the second story the space over
the lanai library and principals room
below forms, including the corridor
into which it opens, large assembly
room, 33X52 feet, capable of seating
400 people.
The walls and ceilings are to be of
plaster and no woodwork will be used
in the building except for floors and
doors and windows. All of the class
rooms will be thirteen feet high, and
the corners will be rounded to pre-
vent the accumulation of dirt.
Under instructions of the Board of
Education the two main points con-
sidered in the building have been the
light and ventilation. AS to the for
|
the best exposure for all the rooms,
giving the greatest amount of ligh
without the sun. The class rooms are
lighted on one side, the windows eX-
tending from a point feet inches
above the floor to the ceiling. The
desks are so arranged that the light
comes over the left shoulder of the
pupil, no pupil being more than 81
| e., -, 81 1,n
ner rooms have latticed transoms on
one side while the others have tran
SONS over the blackboards the full
width of the rooms, opening into the
corridors. The front of the building
receives the full sweep of the trade
winds. The air will enter the build
ing through the open lanai and will
be swept through the main corridors
provided with large windows over the
stairways, and through the transoms
to the class rooms in the rear, thus
providing a constant and plentiful
circulation at all times. The foul
large windows in each class room are
intended to furnish all the light need
ed on the darkest days. On bright
sunny days the light is regulated by
using sliding blinds, which can bt
put out of sight when required.
There will be no special cloak rooms
in the building but in each class room
there will be a partition Z feet high
J feet from the inside walls, whicl
} will be provided with hooks on ont
, side and blackboards on the other, af
fording a passage way 4X26 feet TO
hats and cloaks on either side. Eacl
class room is provided with a move
able platform and a clothes closet TO
the teachers AKA feet.
Under the rules laid down by tn
French scientists no child should 81
more than 81 feet from the light no
more than 30 feet from the teacher
desk, that being the maximum dis
, tance the human voice is supposed t.
; carry. These rules are provided TO
i in this building.
The main floor of the building vii
be three feet from the ground and
! to be reached by cement steps thirt
! feet long Over these will be an OF
namental iron balcony extending froI
the front of the main assembly hal
The estimated cost of the buildin
is $4,000. If enough money can b
, saved out of this sum it is propose
to put in row of glass cases in tn
corridor opposite the lanai to forT
the nucleus of a school museum, tn
department already having fair co
lection of curiosities gathered togetf
i er here.
The sanitary arrangements for tn
: school, janitor's Office and store ROOF
n will be in separate outbuilding c
wood.