Sala House: Concrete balustrade at the entrance terrace – Photographs

01/07/1983

Exterior View

Three versions of the same photograph depicting the rose-painted low-cost concrete balustrade, used as a railing for the parking deck.
One of them was exhibited at the 2014 Locus Manifesto-exposition “Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing society´s transitions”, in Science Cabinet 2.

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Construction Innovation 1 Items

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.

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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, ...

Projects 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 ...

Public Events 1 Items

Locus Manifesto-exposition "Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing Society´s Transitions" 21/05/2014 to 06/10/2014

Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris, France

Exhibition

The 40 architects already awarded the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture participated and exhibited their works. The exhibition was on international touring until 2016. Christopher Alexander’s participation included the extensive presentation of the Mexicali project in the “Saving the People’s Habitat” ...

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.

Drawings 1 Items

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

Construction Innovation, Presentation Drawing, Details

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

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