A House For The Islands
p. 54 · Read in the full issue
TV.RAWN by Mr. Charles E. Sparrow.
A.M.1.N.A., the illustrations below show an original plan for building a house eminently suited to conditions in the South Seas. Mr. Sparrow is Instructor at the Technical Training Institution conducted by the Methodist Missionary Society on Fergusson Island, Papua.
“It is by no means a finished plan,” he writes, “but will no doubt offer sugges tions to dwellers in the tropics. The main features are a lounge room so arranged
as to catch breezes on all sides and bed rooms and kitchen situated to allow three sides being exposed to light and air.
“The outside walls are well shaded by an overhanging roof. If an approved exhaust ventilator were placed in the centre of the main roof, this house would prove to be as cool as it is possible.
“The building may be constructed of reinforced concrete or asbestos cement sheets, and erected on the ground or on piles according to prevailing conditions.