Sala House: Concrete balustrade and its formwork

1983

Building Detail, Low-cost Formwork

Rose colored concrete balustrade made by pouring concrete into a low-budget assembly of two sheets of sheetrock, braced, and with hand-cut styrofoam fillers shaped to the form of the void in-between.

Content of

Project 1 Items

Sala House 1981 to 1983

700 Hillside, 94706, Albany, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in Jun-1983

Three-story tower, 20 feet by 20 feet in plan on each floor, on a wooded, sloping site. The interior structure of the house is wood post and beam with pine panelling and hand-painted surfaces, and the exterior is a red ...

Contents

Drawings 1 Items

Sala House: Concrete balustrade and its formwork - Presentation Drawings 01/01/1982

Presentation Drawing, Details

Detailed drawing depicting an axonometric of the concrete balustrade with the removable styrofoam forms, and a partial plan of the deck.

Photographs 5 Items

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References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

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, ...

Books 1 Items

The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Book Three - A Vision of a Living World 2005

“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, ...

Book Chapters 1 Items

Chapter 16. Continuous Invention of New Materials and Techniques, 5 / Cheap and Beautiful Ways of Forming Concrete

Publication,

Visual & Audio Materials 1 Items

Locus Manifesto-exposition: CES presented the construction innovation on the use of simple and chip formwork techniques for concrete works, as applied in the Sala House 30/05/2014

Public Event, Visual, Exhibition Board

One board in Science Cabinet #1 of the exhibit, with drawings and photographs of a concrete bracket and a ballustrate, illustrating the experimental use of easily removable molds made out of styrofoam, for shaping concrete in curved beautiful forms.