Eliminates Passages

Te Ao Hou, June 1964, Page 24

Eliminates Passages The plan is no larger than the traditional one, but it eliminates all passages, thereby saving space for other purposes. The living room itself is 33 feet long, and parts of it are narrow, like a long gallery, open on one side with glass doors to the internal court, our ‘open air living room’. Because of this it will not feel cramped. Other parts of the living room are 13 feet wide, and the whole living

space is 336 sq. ft. in area. The bedrooms are all much larger than in similar houses built on more traditional lines, having 130 sq. ft., 170 sq. ft., and 175 sq. ft. respectively. This compares with 100 sq. ft., 108 sq. ft., and 108 sq. ft. in the Maori Affairs Department's house, plan type 3/21 A. This plan has 1030 sq. ft., while the new plan which we are considering here has only 1000 sq. ft. Even if one made the two large children's bedrooms, one for boys and one for girls, into three bedrooms, these three bedrooms would still have 115 sq. ft. each, and (since there is, of course, a bedroom for the parents also), the house would be a four-bedroom house. But as it is designed with three bedrooms, there is room for more beds if necessary—at least ten beds, without the use of bunks.