Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Thick Walls

1985

Construction System, Monocoque Construction

A custom made set of thick wall components, all premanufactured with the same height, standardized thickness, and a variety of standardized lengths, to enable the realization of a variety of rooms, as they were laid out by the users. All panels were built out of 1/2" plywood, with 3/4" plywood ribs for stiffening. The set included simple solid panels, panels with openings, as well as panels with built-in shelves, drawers, cupboards, work counter, catalog counters, depending on the choice of the users. When installed in place, connected with the vertical trims and painted it looked like a continuous wall.

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Offices and Workshops for Sweet Potatoes Children's Clothing Factory 1985 to 1986

1509A San Pablo Avenue, 94702, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Offices & Workshops, Office Furniture, Realized , Construction completed in Apr-1986

2,300 square feet of interior office space for the management and administrative staff for "Sweet Potatoes" clothing factory to accommodate two partners and eleven employees. All interior furnishings, walls, floors, ceilings, lighting, built-in cabinets, desks, storage, chairs, tables, custom fitted ...

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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, ...