The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for Homeless: Open lacework concrete trusses shot in place with gunite – Construction Drawings
3 3) Revised building permit drawing with red pen notes and marks

The dining hall of Julian street inn is the higher building volume of the complex; the hall, a sigle room, 30 feet wide and 50 feet long, was intended to seat about 100 people. When the shape of the volume ...

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, ...

Two drawings of the precast concrete truss, which ultimately was not prefabricated but shot in place.

Six images of a cardboard full scale partial mock-up, depicting one of the spanning ends of the truss and the testing on site four alternatives for supporting the truss on the columns already built. The first, simple solution was chosen ...