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C.E.S. Office – Martinez House: Outdoor walls and seat with balustrade in arches
1979The seat with its balustrade, built next to the tile workshop in Martinez, were built solely with sprayed concrete. Styrofoam or polysterene cut-outs to shape were used and placed against a backing of sheetrock, providing an ultra-low-cost formwork. Then concrete was shot and screeded off to a smooth surface. .
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Concrete balustrade in arches & seat - Photographs
01/01/1979
Three photographs of the bench and the ornated balustrade, built next to the tile workshop; people using it on two of them.
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Concrete balustrade in arches & seat - Photographs
01/01/1979
Detail of the balustrade connected to the bench, made of sprayed concrete.
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Concrete balustrade in arches & seat - Photographs
01/01/1979
Three photographs of the completed structure of the bench and the ornated balustrade, using the gunnite method of construction.
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