The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for Homeless: Open lacework concrete trusses shot in place with gunite – Outline sketches

01/01/1986

Sketches, Elevation

Three sketches depicting the early development of floral shapes composing a concrete truss. The first two sketches show a progressive shape adjustment of the individual truss members and the third is a finite element analysis of the truss structure.

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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

Construction Innovation, Construction Experiment & Mock-up, Design Process

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 ...