Architecture in relation to hygiene.
- International Congress of Hygiene and Demography
- Date:
- 1892
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Architecture in relation to hygiene. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![If 1 storey high - 12-500 X 72,000 = 900,000 cubic feet, .. 2 storeys ,, - lO'OOO X 138,000 = 1,380,000 ,, „ 3 „ ‘ „ - 8-333 x 198,000 = 1,650,000 „ 4 „ „ - 7-142 X 252,000 = 1,800,000 „ 5 „ „ - 6-250 x 300,000 = 1,875,000 „ 6 „ „ - 5-555 X 342,000 = 1,900,000 „ „ 7 „ „ - 5-000 x 378,000 = 1,890,000 „ On this area 500 feet by 250 feet, equal to 2'8787 acres, the amount of cubic space enclosable per acre, would be— \ storey high 2 storeys „ 3 v 4' 5 > y> 5 „ „ 6 5? )> 7 312,641 cubic feet. 479,383 573,175 625,282 651,335 660,020 656,546 53-3] 19 5 j 9 1 )■ Increase per cent. 4i i 13 J 0-5 ^Increase per cent. On the above area buildings four storeys high would enclose double the amount of cubic space of buildings one storey high under the same conditions. On a larger area the increase of cubic space would be proportion- ately greater. For instance, if the area were double the depth and length (11-4784 acres), then under the same conditions the following would approximately be the amount of cubic space enclosable per acre :— 1 storey high - 320,220 2 storeys high - 501,950 = 56 7 3 „ - 614,300 = 22-3 4 „ - 687,000 = 11-8 5 „ - 736,000 = 7-1 6 „ - 766,650 = 4 1 7 „ - 786,800 ~ 2-6 8 „ - 798,450 = 1-4 9 „ - 803,800 = 0-6 So that, given an area, the greatest amount of cubic space enclosable with due regard to health provisions may be calculated, and the cubic space adopted as a uniform standard more valuable than the mere number of tenements, or of rooms, or the square space, as a basis of calculation for the size of block buildings, cost, accommodation, density, and mortality. And in proportion to the cubic space enclosable the number of persons housable on an area may be calculated. Restriction of time will only allow of a brief but sufficient reply to the prevalent objections to blocks. It lias been urged that block dwellings are, from their unsightliness, repellent to the classes sought to be attracted ; but it is a poor com- pliment to the resources of architects to attribute to them inability to provide embellishment at moderate cost by beauty of form, colour, and ornament. The objection that the working classes avoid them on account of their collective arrangement, and the objection that a class superior to those they are intended for takes possession of them, as well as the fact that residential flats are i.n favour may be left to the objectors](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28045415_0115.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
