Construction Yard: Sprayed Concrete Building System – Photographs of mock-up

01/01/1977

Construction Experiment & Mock-up

Images depicting two full scale mock-ups built with sprayed concrete; the first mock-up comprises an exterior wall segment shot with sprayed concrete, which supports the formwork of a sloped roof with a barrel-vault ceiling and the second is a mock-up of two round columns supporting a concrete arch.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Print, Negative

Characteristics:

3 1/2"x4 3/4", 35mm, Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Construction Yard: Experiments in spayed concrete 1977

Construction System, Sprayed Concrete, Sloped Roof & Vaulted Ceiling

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, UCB students

Spayed concrete experiments and mockups, conducted with graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, as a special study course. The mockups included the construction of vaults, walls, columns, floors, beams, arches, in sprayed concrete over steel armature .

Contents

Photographs

References

Scientific Research

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Innovation

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, ...