International studio (45.1912)

Designs for Seaside Bungalows

treated staircases and chimneypieces play a
part.
Generally speaking, the competitors have in this
competition been pretty unanimous in their
definition of the word “ Bungalow.” They have
taken it to mean a house of simple character, the
accommodation of which is arranged on one floor,
with a possibility of utilising some of the roof-space
for one or two additional
bedrooms. Naturally where
this is the case, the cost is
more than usual, owing to
the larger proportion of roof
which such a method
implies.
In commenting on the
drawings which have come
under our notice, it will be
as well if we take first those
now reproduced, and then
make some brief remarks on
such of the others as are
worth consideration.
“Melos,” who has sent
an extremely interesting
guache drawing with sections
and plans, has imagined—
and with every right accord¬
ing to the terms of the
competition—that his site is
a small rocky promontory

on one of the islands of the Eastern Mediter-
ranean, and has adopted the simple-domed treat-
ment characteristic of the locality. A ten-feet
verandah gives, by means of a barrel-vaulted
vestibule, on to a living-room lighted by round-
headed windows in the drum of a central'dome.
A corridor on either side of this central feature
leads to the bedrooms, a large bathroom and


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