Go BackThe Julian Street Inn – Shelter for Homeless: Lacework concrete trusses with curved members shot in the air – Photographs of mock-up
01/11/1988Photograph of the full scale mock-up of the final concrete truss built out of reinforced cardboard, following the dimensions and details of the finally engineered truss, and lifted on the dining hall walls, to be tested in its real place for fine tuning, before building the formwork for shooting the gunnite.
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The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for Homeless: Lacework concrete trusses with curved members shot in the air - Photographs of mock-up depicting its design process
01/01/1987
Six photographs of a scale mock-up of an early version of concrete truss, experimenting with the construction of the truss formwork and reinforcement, using styrofoam for making the voids of the concrete truss.
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The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for Homeless: Lacework concrete trusses with curved members shot in the air - Photographs of mock-ups depicting its design process
29/08/1988
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 ...