School and Hospital: Long Facades and Regular Bays

A long brick public building. The facade extends very long along the street, divided into a dozen identical bays by equally spaced brick pilasters, each bay having a coupled window; the central entrance bay is wider, forming a large horseshoe arch and extending upwards into a tower. Except for the center, the rhythm of the entire building is completely repetitive. Below the cornice is a continuous blind arch and a sawtooth band. Avoid: making the facade bays irregular, having different decorations in each bay, omitting the emphasis on the central entrance, making the building a centralized square mass.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟長形的磚砌公共建築。立面沿街延伸很長,由等距的磚砌壁柱切成十幾個相同的開間,每個開間一扇雙連窗;中央的入口開間較寬,做成一道大的馬蹄拱並向上延伸成一座塔。除了中央之外,整棟的節奏完全重複。簷口下方是一道連續的盲拱與鋸齒帶。避免:讓立面的開間不規律、在每個開間都做不同的裝飾、省略中央入口的強調、把建築做成集中式的方形量體。