Heavy Timber Carpentry Workshop
1985 to 1986The third building completed on the Martinez site was a heavy timber carpentry workshop, 800 square feet of floor area, with 12"x12" columns and 8"x14" beams, specially engineered trusses and wood paneling. .
                    
                                
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            
                    
                
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                    Martinez Heavy Timber Carpentry Workshop: Heavy timber load bearing frames and trusses                
                                    
                        1985                                            
                                
            
            Heavy Timber Loading Bearing Frames and Trusses; 12"x12" columns and 8"x14" beams and trusses; all wood.
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                    Martinez Heavy Timber Carpentry Workshop: Heavy timber construction details                
                                    
                        1985                                            
                                
            
            Concrete column base and timber column connection; timber capital where column, beam and braces meet and other timber connection details.
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                    Martinez Heavy Timber Carpentry Workshop: Giant white star                
                                    
                        1986                                            
                                
            
            Giant white star on the exterior wall of the carpentry workshop made of enamel painted wood.
 
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                    Martinez Carpentry Workshop: Photographs of drawings                
                                    
                        01/01/1985                                             
                                
            
            Six drawings of the carpentry workshop.
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                    Martinez Carpentry Workshop: Photographs of the building                
                                    
                        01/01/1985                                             
                                
            
            Photograph of the carpentry workshop, with the small experimental shed in front of it, before it was demolished.
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                    Martinez Carpentry Workshop: Photographs of the building                
                                    
                        01/01/1986                                             
                                
            
            Two black and white photographs of the building exterior.
 
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                    Users Involved in the Construction of their Project                
                                    
                                                                    
                                
            
            The benefits of the involvement of the users in the actual construction of their houses under the guidance and management of the architect-builder or the contractor, besides the obvious economical, are manifested in the personal qualities and feeling of these ...
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                    Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding                
                                    
                                                                    
                                
            
            Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...
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                    Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale                
                                    
                                                                    
                                
            
            A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...
 
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                    C.E.S. Office - Martinez House                
                                    
                        1977                                                    to
                            1984
                                            
                                
            
            The second building completed on the Martinez site, was a 2,000 square feet house. A gunite all-concrete building as well, it was the first sizable and fully functional project in which C.E.S. used gunite, while applying all permit and specification ...
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                    Tile Glazing Workshop                
                                    
                        1978                                                    to
                            1981
                                            
                                
            
            The first building completed on the Martinez site, was an experimental gunite all-concrete building, with 200 square feet of floor area, concrete vaulted ceiling and concrete pitched roof. It was used as the tile glazing workshop, equipped with a kiln ...
 
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                    Martinez Heavy Timber Carpentry Workshop: Heavy Timber Load Bearing Frames and Trusses - Photographs                
                                    
                        01/01/1985                                             
                                
            
            Photograph of the load bearing structure of the workshop, columns, beams and roof trusses, before its cladding and finishing were completed.
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                    Martinez Heavy Timber Carpentry Workshop: Heavy Timber Construction Details - Photographs                
                                    
                        01/01/1985                                             
                                
            
            View of the timber posts with the mortises and tenons shaped for connecting the posts to their concrete base, in two versions.
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                    Martinez Heavy Timber Carpentry Workshop: Heavy Timber Construction Details - Photographs of drawings                
                                    
                        01/01/1985                                             
                                
            
            Three photographs of construction drawings with details.
 
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