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HDB History and Floor Plan Evolution 1930S 8/19/2020 HDB history, photos and floor plan evolution 1930s to 2010s - The world of Teoalida The world of Teoalida Original works made by me: AutoCAD drawings, Excel, CSV, SQL databases, real estate information and many more! Home About me Housing in Singapore Housing around the World Architecture & AutoCAD design Databases Games Off-topic Contact HDB history and floor plan evolution 1930s – 2020s About me This page shows oor plans of ~100 most common I am Teoalida and I love HDB at types and most representative layouts. doing research, Many other layouts exists, unique layouts with collecting information, slanted rooms, as well as variations of the writing articles and standard layouts, these usually have larger sizes. making databases Looking for certain town or at type? Use Ctrl+F about real estate, cars, to search within this page. and other elds, as well Most searched floor plans: 1960s 3STD 3I 4I, 1970s 3NG 4NG 5I, 1980s 3S 3A as designing own 4S 4A 5A, 1990s 4A 5I, EA, 2000s 4A 5I EA, Maisonette, Jumbo, Pinnacle, Largest housing models. Also HDB ats playing games with FAQ: age of HDB block? What is lease commence date? How I got oorplans? buildings. Looking for .DWG oor plans? I made this website in 2009 to share 1930s, 1940s, 1950s – SIT era knowledge and educational material, Tiong Bahru pre-war vs post-war SIT blocks sell my works and promote my services, and make new (business) friends. By today it grew to over 100 pages based on suggestions and project requests from people like YOU! Your feedback needed! Live chat customer support https://www.teoalida.com/singapore/hdbfloorplans/ 1/59 8/19/2020 HDB history, photos and floor plan evolution 1930s to 2010s - The world of Teoalida 10-14 hours per day, 7 days of 7 Do you want to purchase any of my works? Do you have comments or suggestions for my articles? Did you found broken links or errors Singapore Improvement Trust set up in 1927 and focused on infrastructure, it that need correction? also built small scale public housing, such as Tiong Bahru (started in 1936) and Contact me! Queenstown (started in 1952 and completed by HDB in 1960s). In 32 years, SIT built only 23,000 ats, housing 8.8% of Singapore population in 1959. Students feel free to The SIT housing was similar with British housing, 2-storey terraced houses, use information 3/4-storey walk-up ats, 7/9-storey high-rise ats started being built in 1952 provided on my and one 14-storey block was built in 1956 in Queenstown. The blocks were website, cite it in your built at just 10-15 meters apart, denser than HDB estates. List of SIT estates. research paper, but if you need additional SIT floor plans help at homework you are advised to use Pre-war Tiong Bahru blocks feature ats from 3-room to 5-room, you can see Google and get oor plans on tiongbahruestate.wordpress.com > tiong-bahru-pre-war-oor- plans and tiongbahruestate.wordpress.com > uncategorized. information yourself, do not contact me to Post-war, SIT built mostly 2-room and 3-room, a small number of 4-Room ats ask DUMB questions, were built at least in Alexandra North, Silat Estate and Tiong Bahru, but I never or chatting just found any oor plan. To speed up construction, ats were downsized in 1955 and fewer 4-room were built. 1-Room ats on double-loaded corridor were because you are bored introduced in 1958 in Kallang Airport Estate. SIT also built tenements (blocks in classroom. with communal kitchen and toilets, opposite of “self-contained ats”), that can be built quickly for the victims of various res. Buy and download immediately Pay with PayPal or Credit Card and the download link is emailed automatically to you (example email). Custom projects Can’t nd what are you looking for? Do you have ideas for a new https://www.teoalida.com/singapore/hdbfloorplans/ 2/59 8/19/2020 HDB history, photos and floor plan evolution 1930s to 2010s - The world of Teoalida SIT also built terraced houses, two clusters survived: Jalan Bahagia (in Whampoa, 28 blocks, 200 units), Stirling Road (in Queenstown, 13 blocks, 84 units). Most units are 3-Room (originally 78 sqm) but on Stirling Road there are some 4-Room (99 sqm). Over time, the owners built additional rooms in front, rear, and side of corner units, expanding some houses to over 200 sqm according resale transactions. https://www.teoalida.com/singapore/hdbfloorplans/ 4/59 8/19/2020 HDB history, photos and floor plan evolution 1930s to 2010s - The world of Teoalida Some oor plans of rental ats are available on HDB InfoWEB under PPHS (whole block oor plans, no dimensions). https://www.teoalida.com/singapore/hdbfloorplans/ 5/59 8/19/2020 HDB history, photos and floor plan evolution 1930s to 2010s - The world of Teoalida 1960s – HDB beginnings HDB was founded in February 1960, shortly after People Action Party won national elections of 1959. HDB continued construction of some SIT estates: Queenstown, Kallang Airport, St. Michael, Kampong Tiong Bahru, and launched new estates like Bukit Ho Swee, Brickworks, Alexandra Hill, Redhill, Henderson (in Bukit Merah); Bendemeer, Boon Keng, Kallang Bahru and Tanjong Rhu (in Kallang), Upper Changi Road aka Chai Chee (now part of Bedok), MacPherson (in Geylang), MacPherson Homes (in Toa Payoh). On 13 February 1959 a re started in Kampong Tiong Bahru, leaving 12,000 people homeless (source: NLB). SIT quickly cleared the area and built few 5- storey blocks with 1-Room ats and 9-storey blocks as well as terraced houses. A bigger re in Bukit Ho Swee on 25 May 1961 left 16,000 people homeless, as coincidence HDB completed in September 1961 the Kampong Tiong Bahru ats started by SIT and moved the re victims there, after few months of temporary housing in Queenstown. These res helped HDB to gain popularity. In Master Plan 1958 you can see numerous terraced houses (planned by SIT and never built) around Redhill and Whampoa. HDB changed housing typology to massive blocks with smaller ats and eliminated terraced houses. HDB aimed to build 50,000 dwelling units in rst 5 years, so a simple brutalist architecture was chosen, in contrast with the Art Deco and Modernist themes used by SIT. Kampong clearance started. Queenstown was de facto rst new town, but Toa Payoh New Town started in 1965 was the rst officially named “New Town”), incorporating a town centre and several neighborhoods. Toa Payoh preliminary plan was published in SIT Annual Report 1958, including terraced houses and low-rise ats. Farmers that opposed government taking their land delayed construction for few years, enough for HDB to change plans to high rises. The rst blocks completed by HDB are Queenstown blk 45, 46, 49, 7-storey blocks styled like SIT. Redevelopment of uneconomical SIT estates started in 1967, single-storey artisans quarters built by SIT in 1951-1953 at Henderson and Upper Aljunied were demolished and replaced by high-rise blocks. 1960s estates composed only by linear slab blocks (corridor style) in most common height of 10 storeys and usually with 12 units per oor, but several blocks were longer, plus 2-storey shophouses. Minimal distance between facades was not regulated, usually 15-30 metres. Old photos from Bukit Ho Swee estate (built 1961-1964) The 7-storey blocks in left side had 1-Room Emergency flats. https://www.teoalida.com/singapore/hdbfloorplans/ 6/59 8/19/2020 HDB history, photos and floor plan evolution 1930s to 2010s - The world of Teoalida Old aerial views of Toa Payoh New Town (rst phase built 1966-1973) https://www.teoalida.com/singapore/hdbfloorplans/ 7/59 8/19/2020 HDB history, photos and floor plan evolution 1930s to 2010s - The world of Teoalida SIT blocks with 2-Room / 3-Room Standard at, from Tiong Bahru and Redhill drawing, database, or article that may be useful to thousands readers? Don’t go away… just tell your requirements, what I don’t HAVE I can MAKE for you and future customers. I prioritize projects based on how many people request or benet from it. How many peop Clicky We 16 846 3,085 19,024 73,449 https://www.teoalida.com/singapore/hdbfloorplans/ 3/59 8/19/2020 HDB history, photos and floor plan evolution 1930s to 2010s - The world of Teoalida 1960s typical HDB floor plans In rst 5 years HDB built ats in proportion of 40% 1-room, 30% 2-Room, 30% 3-Room. The oor areas have broad range: 1-Room (23-33 sqm), 2-Room (35- 45 sqm), 3-Room (50-70 sqm). 4-Room were introduced in 1967 at Henderson Road. Later in Outram Park and Toa Payoh (70-85 sqm). I estimate average size during 1960s around 40-50 sqm. Standard ats (1/2/3/4-room) had WC and shower in same room. Improved ats (1/2/3/4-room) were introduced in 1966, the 3/4-room having separate WC and shower, they also featured void decks. Emergency ats (1/2-room on double-loaded corridor) were also built. I do not know how many emergency blocks were built, because only 5 blocks survived: blk 91, 92, 93 Henderson Rd , blk 1 Maude Rd, blk 2 Kitchener Rd (2-room, all rental). The typology with double-loaded corridor was used also for 1-Room Improved. Tenements (ats with communal kitchen and toilet, opposite of self-contained ats), were also built, for example Bukit Ho Swee blocks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, according iremember.sg blog (I do not know if these were all tenements or if were more).
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