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Architect meets site challenge

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SINGAPORE International School's board was delighted when the Government granted it the go-ahead to build a new campus in Nam Long Shan Road, Aberdeen.

Just how long that delight was sustained when board members discovered the site was on a steep slope is not certain.

But the location was the challenge that attracted P & T Architects and Engineers Ltd to undertake the project in 1992.

'I don't think the board was quite sure what to do with the site,' said Bernard Lim, a director of the architectural firm.

'It is very difficult to build a school on a slope.

'For any building it is difficult but, for a school, you are faced with a lot of restrictions on recreation areas. The teaching levels cannot be more than 24 metres from a road to allow for emergency access.' The situation meant the school could not be built vertically, level on level.

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