An Approach to Wholeness
01/02/1986
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House
1977 to
1984
The second building completed on the Martinez site, was a 2,000 square feet house. A gunite all-concrete building as well, it was the first sizable and fully functional project in which C.E.S. used gunite, while applying all permit and specification ...
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Tile Glazing Workshop
1978 to
1981
The first building completed on the Martinez site, was an experimental gunite all-concrete building, with 200 square feet of floor area, concrete vaulted ceiling and concrete pitched roof. It was used as the tile glazing workshop, equipped with a kiln ...
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Sala House
1981 to
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 ...
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Lounge table with two benches; table colored in red and green and benches in orange and yellow
1985
A long rectangular table with two benches, made out of wood, for the C.E.S. office in Martinez. All colored in gouache on top of a layer of gesso over the wood, and then coated with varnish.
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Tiles glazed in light green and dark green
1985
100 light green and dark green repeating tiles for a floor, made in the Martinez workshop; ceramic paint on white porcelain tile.
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Tile panel with green, red, yellow and blue star pattern
1986
Tile panel with green, red, yellow and blue star pattern tiles, hand-painted and hand-glazed in the Martinez office workshop; ceramic paint on white porcelain tile.
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Sala House: Wooden post and beam, load bearing structural frame combined with red and grey cast concrete exterior walls
1982
Timber frame out of 6"x6" douglas fir columns and beams for vertical loads only, which require pin connections only with 1/2'' rebars; wood corbels cut from six-by-six stock also enable beam to post connections with 1" bolts. The framework exposes ...
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Interior beams, columns, column capitals and ceiling patterns
1983
Shaping building elements by shooting gunite into lightweigh open formwork; styrofoam fillers on a plywood form were used for details and ornaments.
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Sala House: Hand-painted children's bedroom alcoves
1983
The painting of the children's room with two bed alcoves, involved both Christopher Alexander and Andre Sala; it started with discussions about color between the two and continued with testing bits of cardboard painted and pinned up in the walls. ...
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