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Show i(fpST SCHOOL IS TO BE MODEL BUILDINGj ? , j SB j ONE-STORY TYPE ADOPTED AS FAVORITE I !i. ifspecti view and ground plan of proposed new school building at Forest Dale.. ! i - i 1 'ZZZZZ FOR-tJ-T DALE JCHOOL. b U1LD INC IZ p T 3ALT LAKE CITY. UTAH jTfn w '8 ilft faTEL-TFC fr f Ml . , , T? -J MANUAL ; m cu w , tranjng li I M ""j LIBRARY 0DOM LfeJ rrrT3TCti frrr yr- , , pt CLA-' CLAX CLA5J CLAtf CLAJ CLAJtf .,, GRADE ROOM 0M ' DOM ROOM FOOM DOMEJnc" lJ- Fl1 fLO plan fjXj : DTACL. : LJ - -, ' " ' 1 ' . A : Hi i - i " "tit r iL i ' s , ; (- Health of Pupils Is Given ;- First Consideration in Building Arrangement. rrHE cuts above illustrate the pro-I pro-I posed Forest Dale school, the I latest addition to Salt Lake City 's school system. Bids on the con-. con-. itniction of this building were opened July 26. T"he picture of the exterior is from .L; a clay model made by the architect, '.",v C. S. McDonald. In style it is derived from the Spanish Baroque, of which the , . "mission" architecture of California is a crude and much simplified version. The best examples are found in Central and South America, and are characterized by the contrast of flat stucco surfaces With elahorate ornamentation at doors , and windows; and in many cases by t"- beautiful towers which rise' from plain iiare bases and merpe gracefully into octagonal and often round shapes ns they ''- .'row upward. All of the buttings at i:'- the San Diego exposition are designed t in this stylo, as well as one or two of those at the Panama-Pacific exposition. i:' Is of One Story. The exterior of a building, however, is of importance onlv as it arises from ami expresses the plan. In plan, the ;r Forest Dale school, like the Liberty, is ;t a departure from the type hitherto-' pre-i-x vniliiijjr in this and most other cities, ii The site is five acres in area and tho .;. buiMirr will be 2.16 feet long and but :: one story high. The arrangement of tho main floor is shown above. All of the school activities are' on this floor, the uasement and attic being unoccupied except ex-cept tor a portion of the basement under the center of the building, which will contain the boiler, the fans, air washers, wash-ers, beating coils, etc. These are entirely en-tirely enclosed in reinforced concrete. A reinforced concrete slab also forms the floor of the main corridor. Study of the plan will show that the general functions, such as principal 's ojlice, library, teachers ' and nurses ' room, supply room and toilets are grouped in the center of the building, insuring facility in administration and supervision. The kindergarten and iirst grade are placed at the south end, with separate toilets and entrance, keeping keep-ing the smaller children apart and directly di-rectly under the supervision of their teachers. The domestic science and manual training rooms are at the north and where the noise and odor of cooking cook-ing are as far removed as possible from I he class rooms. Improved Lighting. The class rooms are arranged along both sides of the corridor and are ; lighted from one side only. "The win-j dows are, in area, not less than 20 : per cent of the area of the floor of the I cm to be lighted and in each room are grouped together, separated only by narrow mullions, to avoid cross shadows. The group is placed nearer the rear wall than the front wall so that no student will have light in his eyes and also to avoid glare on the blackboard black-board back j of the teacher's desk. The heating and ventilating system consists of a fan drawing ires'h Hir from the outside through a steam coil which raises its temperature and increases in-creases its moisture-carrying capacity. Next it passes .through curtains of water finely sprayed, which wash out the dust and increase the humidity. Then part of the air passes through and part around another steam coil the proportion being determined automatically automati-cally so that the resulting mixture, when the two currents rejoin, is of the required temperature and humidity. Finally the fan forces the air into and through duets which lead to the several class rooms and deliver the air to these rooms at the rate of forty cubic feet per minute for each occupant. In this way a constant supply of fresh, warm and properly moistened air is assured. No other grade school in the city, with (he exception of the Liberty, now under un-der construction, is equipped with a system sys-tem like this. Health Is Considered. The toilet rooms have been giien an equal amount of attention. They are so located that they receive constant supervision from tho principal or the teachers and, being above ground, are light and sanitary. The floors are of white tile and the stall partitions glass. The fixtures have been selected with fireat care as to their qualities of sanitation sani-tation and durability. The toilet rooms have a special exhaust fan to withdraw the air and force it quickly out of the building. The absence of stairways greatly increases in-creases the safety of the' occupants of the building, since accidents in case of fire usually result from the ensuing panic a nd almost inva riablv occur on tho stairways. In this building all students stu-dents are on the ground floor, and doors to the outside are so numerous fiiat it is practically impossible for a dangerous panic to occur. The absence of stairways is a feature advantageous also to the health of the students. It is probable that in the future fu-ture wherever the cost of la nil is not so high as to prohibit spreading- out the 1 1 building, the schools of this city will be i of the one-story type. ' Officials Co-operate. ii The design of the Forest Pale school ; ; was I he result ot' the closest co-opera- I lion between the .superintendent of schools, the superintendent of buildings and tho architect. 1 1 was f eeognizod bv all, without dissent, that of the considerations con-siderations controlling the design of the building the safety and health of its occupants came first, facility and efficiency effi-ciency of operation and administration second, and questions of architectural beautv last of all. Tn working out the problem, however, it was found that the adoption of a one-story type per-' per-' mitted structural and planning eeono-mics eeono-mics bv moans of whiMi, without in anv wa v a bat ing the force of those ! throe requirements, the cost of tho building could be reduced considerably below that of former buildings. The last five large schools have cost on an average of 1S;1 per pupil. This building build-ing will cost but $12i a having of 30 per rent. The planning economies were ma-V possible bv tho fact that no seen ml floor had to be considered in laying I out the first floor, and that no space I ! or expensive structure had to be provided pro-vided for stairways, nor were tire escapes necessary. The structural economies econ-omies are such as would naturally be expected in a one-story building; lighter walls and absence of long floor- spans. In constructing the walls hollow tile blocks are to be used, covered with cement ce-ment stucco. This construction has been employed with great success in school buildings on the Pacific coast and in many fine residences throughout the country. It is at once light and strong, while the air spaces within the walls make the building cool in summer and easy to heat in winter. Its use in this city is just beginning, but promises to become general. The Salt Lake Tennis Ten-nis club, a one-story building, the residences resi-dences of E. O. Howard and J. H. Ley-son Ley-son and a wareliouse for the Utah Fire Clay company, all two-story buildings, are built in this way, besides many others now complete or under construction. con-struction. Big School Population. It was of the utmost importance that saving should be made in the construction construc-tion of schools. Salt Lake has a larger proportion of its total population at the school age (5 to 15 years) than any city in the United States, and the funds available for school purposes are unfortunately unfor-tunately limited by state laws to a point below the requirements of a city of Salt Lake's size and importance. Had it not been possible to reduce the cost of new buildings materially a number of children chil-dren would have had to go without school accommodation, except such ; as could be had in the corridors and basements base-ments of existing buildings or in portable port-able wooden buildings heated by stoves. It was gratifying to find that by careful planning and proportioning of the various vari-ous elements of the structure, it was possible not only to make provision for the increase in school population but also to set an even higher standard in most of the important features of the building than has obtained in the past, without in any way lowering standards that affect the safety and health of the pupils or the administration of the school work. |