SESSION
1937-38

Oct. 4th to Dec. 3rd 1937

Royal Academy
School of Architecture

A Customs Hall & Cargo Shed
To be erected upon a jetty inside a Dock. The cargo shed is to
be upon the ground floor with the Customs Hall over the same, and
the approach to the Customs Hall will be by level gangway from the ship.
The general disposition and main dimensions to be followed are
shown on the accompanying sketch plan & section.

Apart from the Hall accommodation
must be provided for:-
An Office & Small Waiting Room
for Chief Inspector with Lavatory
attached.
A Waiting Room that can be used
as a Canteen for other Inspectors
with Lavatories.
Search Rooms for the sexes.
Two small lock-ups for confiscated
goods.
A General Waiting Room for the
public with Lavatories for the sexes.
Good staircases must be provided
from this level to the roadway. A
secondary stair would also be advisable
from the Customs Hall to the shed
with a hoist for large pieces of
baggage.

The design is to be as simple
as possible, relying upon scale
and proportion for its effect.

Drawings required:
to 1/16" scale. Plans, Elevations & Sections
(with inset block plan of dock to
any convenient small scale.
to 1/8" scale. A Cross Section, the principle End Elevation, and at least
two bays of the side elevation both inside and out, all with
plans relating thereto.

Subject by:-
Sir Edwin Cooper, R.A.

Dec. 6th 1937 to Feb 18th 1938

Royal Academy
School of Architecture

A Collegiate Assembly Hall.
The Governing Body of a Public School for boys propose to build a
new Assembly Hall, and designs are invited for a Hall with seating
accommodation for one thousand.
The Hall is to form the head of a campus and is to be connected
with the other buildings by means of open cloisters on two sides.
The accommodation is to include the following:-
A. A large Entrance Vestibule with Cloak Rooms and Lavatories.
B. Gallery, with two staircases, to accommodate 200.
C. Platform with proscenium and stage for Concerts and Theatrical
performances.
D. Four dressing rooms and Green room at the back of the stage.
Separate entrances for performers.
Separate entrance for Governors and others using the platform.
E. Provision is to be made for an Organ which can be divided and
played from a console.
F. Independent Heating Chamber and Stoves below ground.
The Hall is to be constructed of brick or stone, and the ceiling is to
be panelled in wood.
It is the desire of the Governors to obtain a building of proportions
externally and of charm and elegance within. Designers are
invited to consider the possibility of including fresco paintings for
the interior.

Drawings required:-
to 1/8" scale. Plans, 3 elevations, 3 sections.
A perspective view of the Interior, or, as an alternative, a
portion of the interior to 1/2" scale showing the painted
decoration.

Subject by:-
A. E. Richardson, A.R.A.

Feb 21st to May 6th 1938

Royal Academy
School of Architecture

In the Suburb of a City, a design for ten
'average' houses, in two groups of five, facing each other
on a roadway 120 feet wide, with a fall east to west of
1 in 30.
The roadway consists of two paths 8 feet wide -
two service roads 15 feet wide - two green spaces for trees
20 feet wide, and a centre road 34 feet wide.
The sites are 50 feet wide east and west and 240
north and south with service roads north and south 20 feet
wide. The ground falls north to south 1 in 60.
The roadways must be levelled for their width and
fall east to west 1 in 30.
The project is to design these several houses in
a composed group. The houses need not all be the same
size, but they should consist of 3 sitting rooms, modern
offices, 4 best bedrooms with 3 baths, and 3 servants' rooms
with 1 bath. Garage, with accommodation for a Chauffeur
and a man-servant to be on the back rood with access to the
gardens.
The drawings to be such as are necessary and to
include -
General Block Plan showing steps and levels, with
gardens and planting - Scale 32 feet to 1 inch.
Plan of Houses - Scale 16 feet to one inch.
Plans of one House with necessary sections and
elevations - Scale 8 feet to 1 inch.
Elevations of the whole group in their relation
to each other - Scale 16 feet to 1 inch.
And such drawings as are necessary to show the
scheme as a whole and complete design.
The aspects of the houses must be considered as
the south side of the North Block looks on to the public
(1)

road and the south side of the South Block overlooks the
Gardens, which will affect the planning of the houses, as
the facades to the main road should be, to all effects
symmetrical.

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February 1938
Subject by:-
Sir Edwin Lutyens, R.A.

May 9th to June 30th 1938

Royal Academy
School of architecture

The remodelling of the Entrance Hall, Principal Staircase and
Cloak Rooms at the Royal Academy

The existing Picture Stores at the back of the Principal Staircase
have perforce to be adapted for use as Cloak Rooms at a limited number
of functions when there is a very large attendance, and the communication
to and from them is found to be so inadequate as to cause great congestion
round about the staircase.
It is desired to redesign the lower floor of the Picture Stores primarily
as Cloak Rooms, with improved communication to and from the Entrance
Hall, in such a manner that they could be put to a secondary use as
Picture Stores for the greater part of the year.
All essential communications from the Entrance Hall to the various parts
of the building are to be preserved, also the main plan dimensions, the
heights from floor to ceiling, and the various floor levels of the component
parts, but students have full liberty to alter or remove such subsidiary
walls, etc, as may interfere with their schemes, provided proper provisions
is made for carrying the superstructure.
The external arcade forming Loggia at main entrance may also be
redesigned.
With regard to the detail treatments of wall surfaces, ceilings and floors
students have an absolutely free hand.

Drawings required:-
to 1/8" scale. General Plans and Sections.
to 1/2" scale. The detail treatment of a portion.

Subject by:-
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, R.A.