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5 A SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE BY HARRY EDGAR HUNTER THESIS FOR DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE. IN ARCHITECTURE C OLLEGE OF ENGINEERI N G UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 1901

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7 . i UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS June 7, 1901,!><> THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THE THESIS PREPARED UNDER MY SUPERVISION BV Harry Edgar Hunter entitled A School o Architect^e IS APPROVED 15V ME AS FULFILLING THIS PART OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF Bachelor o Science in Architecture HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF... Architecture.

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9 THESIS DESIGN. A SCHOOL OP ARCHITECTURE. The design presented is a building or a School o Architecture which will accomodate a maximum o two hundred students. The ground dimensions are 110 by 158 l/2, which give a working space on the two main loors o three thousand three hundred square eet. The principal requirements o the problem are, irst, a plan which is economical and convenient in arrangement, aording ample wall space or exhibition purposes, ample light in the working rooms, easy communication to the rooms used in common and simplicity and directness in arrangement; second, an elevation which will indicate this simplicity o plan and the purpose o the building. The principal eature o the plan is a glass covered court, orty ive by sixty-our eet, extending through both stories. This court is placed in the center and provides wall space or exhibition purposes, a museum or casts and other property, light or the corridors and becomes at once a center or decoration. The next step in the solution o the problem was to group the drawing rooms on each side o the building. The Freshman and Sophomore drawing rooms are placed on the irst loor and the Junior and Senior rooms on the second, where the latter will be convenient to the library. The Senior drawing room is divided into alcoves each large enough or our students. In ront o the drawing boards in these alcoves are small shelves or the holding o photographs and plates. The Senior and Junior rooms are lighted by sky lights as

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11 . 2 well as by windows. All our o the drawing rooms are macie exactly the same size, because the larger Freshman and Sophomore classes require less room per person than the two upper classes. Access to the main lecture room may be had through the court or rom the corridors direct. This room will seat one hundred and sixty which is probably suicient or all lecture purposes. The sketchirg room above, which is exactly the same size, will seat more, i necessary, as it is not provided with stationary seats. Adjoining the lantern room is a room or a library o slides. It is the purpose to make the school as nearly as practical sel contained, and provision has, thereore, been made or the Freshman and Sophomore language classes. The recitation rooms are placed next to the drawing rooms and an instructors study adjoins each. The stairways are made simple and as convenient to the entrance as possible On the second loor, extending through the ive center bays, is the architectural library. There is one hundred and ity two eet o lineal wall space available in this room which will provide or all o the books such a school is likely to possess. Should the library, however, outgrow this space, there is a room on each side into which it can expand. These auxiliary rooms are intended to contain several drawing tables to acilitate tracing and study rom books temporarily removed there by members o the classes occupying the two adjoining drawing rooms. On this loor is also the room or sketching. It is o suicient size or a large class in cast drawing and is an excellent

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13 , 3 place or the casts and models which are not in the court. On this loor columns and corner piers take the place o the wall surrounding the court a view o the loor below. : making an open corridor which aords The building is planned essentially to be a good building to work in. In the basement, which is easily reached by two stairways underneath the main stairs and also by stairs underneath the platorm o the outside steps, are rooms or blue printing, clay modeling, and a heating and ventilating laboratory. The exterior is o cut stone and the roo o red tile. The ront ascade is divided into eleven bays o thirteen eet each with the exception o the end bays which are lengthened to increase the widtih o the drawing rooms, and to strengthen the design by giving greater solidity to the corners. The building is o necessity low or its length. That this horizontal' e ect may not be accentuated vertical engaged piers support arches over the arched windows. It is intended that the building be ire proo. One hundred and ity thousand dollars would probably be a sae estimate o the cost o the building i constructed as proposed.

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