Photograph

Etna street Cottage: Photographs of people during construction
2 2) Christopher Alexander while pouring the slab

01/01/1974

Working in Construction

Five images showing people performing various activities in order to prepare the ground floor slab for pouring concrete.

Photograph:

Content of

Project 1 Items

Etna Street Cottage 1974

Etna Street, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1974

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 ...

References

Academic Courses 1 Items

People Rebuilding Berkeley 1974

Academic,

Development of a planning process for the City of Berkeley in which individual neighborhoods had the responsibility for their own improvement through a process based on the use of patterns at a very local scale .

Course Material 1 Items

Arch 209, Spring 1974 - On construction: Student paper on the Etna Street building project 01/01/1973

Academic, Student Work, Paper

10-page student paper reflecting on the process of building the Etna Street Cottage following a construction pattern language. An attempt to formulate the aspects of the followed process which were successful and those that failed the objectives of the experiment.