Etna Street Cottage: Hollow wooden structure filled with lightweigth concrete

Experimental building project, two-story 400 sq. ft. cottage, with a hollow wooden structure filled with concrete and featherweight concrete vaults. Completed in ten weeks, without a building permit at the back of the C.E.S. office on Etna Street, and was ...

Two interior views from the construction process, depicting the lattice structure of the vault, sitting on the boxed-in lightweight concrete columns and beams, with burlap being placed partially.

Five images from the construction process, depicting the initial stages of installing and securing the hollow columns to the foundations, bracing them and connecting them to the hollow beams and roof latice before filling with light concrete.

Two images depicting the second floor structure in a more advanced stage of construction: 1) Box column corner connection to the first floor’s perimeter beam, before light-weight concrete is poured; 2) Top view showing the column and beam structure already ...

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...

“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, ...