by the ramps or landings of the stairs. It would have been easy, in a motif of this sort, to have risked a severance on elevation of the main block in which the stairs occur, and to obviate this difficulty the architects have cleverly modelled the façade in a series of vertical bays, eliminating altogether any horizontal bands. The note of verticality is echoed on the two flanks of the courtyard, and is cleverly blended with a general feeling for horizontality and repose. Although at a casual glance the courtyard façades appear to be natural and easy in their composition, there is evidenced a great deal of technical skill in the combination of masses of different height and very diversified fenestration.
The workshop section, to the right of the main courtyard, covers the largest area of any individual block in the school, although it is only two storeys in height. Its centre is formed by the handsome top-lit machinery hall, in which are placed examples of all types of modern woodworking machinery, including equipment which has been specially designed and is in advance of anything in ordinary commercial use. To the right and left of the machinery hall are carpenters’ shops, each having accommodation for 90 students. This group is completed by various minor services, including two drying rooms, two gluing rooms, two soldering rooms, stores, and, in the Märzstrasse facade, large workshops for coach builders, coopers and wheelwrights.
The main class and lecture room section is five storeys in height, and provides accommodation for 20 draughting rooms each holding 36 students, 20 large class rooms, six teachers’ rooms, a large lecture theatre and an assembly hall, a library, students’ common room, a gymnasium, ample dressing and cloakroom accommodation, and private offices for the directors.
There are also provided living quarters for the caretaker, who has a flat in the basement, and flats for the director and the principal.
In this block are also provided a large dining hall, with kitchens and services, a teachers’ refectory, a laundry, and the large assembly hall, over which is a students’ recreation room (Festhalle), which at one end has a stage and dressing rooms.
The first floor plan shows the very simple organisation of these various parts, which are arranged in file round a well-lit corridor, with staircases at convenient intervals. The sanitary blocks are well arranged in proximity to the staircases, and are sufficiently isolated without being given that undue prominence which results from making a fetish of cross-ventilated lobbies.
Completely separated from the school and workshop sections is the apprentices’ hostel, entered from the Märzstrasse, and containing living quarters for 96 resident students, while in another section of the building is provided the accommodation for casual students in the shape of three large dormitories with independent groups of bathrooms and lavatories.
The ground floor of the hostel contains a private apartment for the director, offices, and kitchen, while on the first floor is a large service pantry and a big dining-room, adjoining which is a reading-room and a music-room. On this floor also there is a sick bay with its own bathroom. On the second floor are two large dormitories and cloakrooms, and above that again are further dormitories.
The interior finish throughout is extremely simple, but for an establishment of this kind it is irreproachable in character. There is also a certain effect of richness conveyed by the use of colour and the selection of good materials. On the main staircase, for instance, leading from the assembly hall to the Festhalle, which is immediately above it, there is an amusingly designed fountain carried out in blue and green majolica. It is perhaps a trifle out of character with the severity of the staircase itself, but the intention is praiseworthy and its detail generally is much more interesting as a feature than the usual tablet which Fig. 2. — INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, VIENNA: THE BLUE AND GREEN FOUNTAIN ON THE MAIN STAIRCASE APPROACH.
Josef Hofbauer and Wilhelm Baumgarten, Architects.
The workshop section, to the right of the main courtyard, covers the largest area of any individual block in the school, although it is only two storeys in height. Its centre is formed by the handsome top-lit machinery hall, in which are placed examples of all types of modern woodworking machinery, including equipment which has been specially designed and is in advance of anything in ordinary commercial use. To the right and left of the machinery hall are carpenters’ shops, each having accommodation for 90 students. This group is completed by various minor services, including two drying rooms, two gluing rooms, two soldering rooms, stores, and, in the Märzstrasse facade, large workshops for coach builders, coopers and wheelwrights.
The main class and lecture room section is five storeys in height, and provides accommodation for 20 draughting rooms each holding 36 students, 20 large class rooms, six teachers’ rooms, a large lecture theatre and an assembly hall, a library, students’ common room, a gymnasium, ample dressing and cloakroom accommodation, and private offices for the directors.
There are also provided living quarters for the caretaker, who has a flat in the basement, and flats for the director and the principal.
In this block are also provided a large dining hall, with kitchens and services, a teachers’ refectory, a laundry, and the large assembly hall, over which is a students’ recreation room (Festhalle), which at one end has a stage and dressing rooms.
The first floor plan shows the very simple organisation of these various parts, which are arranged in file round a well-lit corridor, with staircases at convenient intervals. The sanitary blocks are well arranged in proximity to the staircases, and are sufficiently isolated without being given that undue prominence which results from making a fetish of cross-ventilated lobbies.
Completely separated from the school and workshop sections is the apprentices’ hostel, entered from the Märzstrasse, and containing living quarters for 96 resident students, while in another section of the building is provided the accommodation for casual students in the shape of three large dormitories with independent groups of bathrooms and lavatories.
The ground floor of the hostel contains a private apartment for the director, offices, and kitchen, while on the first floor is a large service pantry and a big dining-room, adjoining which is a reading-room and a music-room. On this floor also there is a sick bay with its own bathroom. On the second floor are two large dormitories and cloakrooms, and above that again are further dormitories.
The interior finish throughout is extremely simple, but for an establishment of this kind it is irreproachable in character. There is also a certain effect of richness conveyed by the use of colour and the selection of good materials. On the main staircase, for instance, leading from the assembly hall to the Festhalle, which is immediately above it, there is an amusingly designed fountain carried out in blue and green majolica. It is perhaps a trifle out of character with the severity of the staircase itself, but the intention is praiseworthy and its detail generally is much more interesting as a feature than the usual tablet which Fig. 2. — INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, VIENNA: THE BLUE AND GREEN FOUNTAIN ON THE MAIN STAIRCASE APPROACH.
Josef Hofbauer and Wilhelm Baumgarten, Architects.