Etna Street Cottage: Hollow wooden structure filled with lightweigth concrete
1974Flexible and low-cost construction techniques consisted of a hollow wooden structure of columns and beams, filled with lightweigth concrete, and a simple foundation made of concrete blocks, with rebars embeddedand ready to receive slab mesh.
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Etna Street Cottage: Basket vault with layers of ultra-lightweight concrete laid over burlap - Photographs
01/01/1974
Two interior views from the construction process, depicting the lattice structure of the vault, sitting on the boxed-in lightweight concrete columns and beams, with burlap being placed partially.
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Etna Street Cottage: Hollow wooden structure filled with lightweigth concrete - Photographs
01/01/1974
Five images from the construction process, depicting the initial stages of installing and securing the hollow columns to the foundations, bracing them and connecting them to the hollow beams and roof latice before filling with light concrete.
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Etna Street Cottage: Hollow wooden structure filled with lightweigth concrete - Photographs
01/01/1974
Two images depicting the second floor structure in a more advanced stage of construction: 1) Box column corner connection to the first floor’s perimeter beam, before light-weight concrete is poured; 2) Top view showing the column and beam structure already ...
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