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

23/05/1988

Construction Drawings, Section, Elevation, Details

Three structural drawings of the concrete truss with successive editing and improvements and including professional seals and signatures.

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Construction Innovation 1 Items

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Lacework concrete trusses with curved members shot in the air 1988

Construction System, Sprayed Concrete

The dining hall of Julian street inn is the higher building volume of the complex; the hall, a sigle room, 30 feet wide and 50 feet long, was intended to seat about 100 people. When the shape of the volume ...

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

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, ...

Drawings 1 Items

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for Homeless: Open lacework concrete trusses shot in place with gunite - Permit Drawings 10/07/1987

Construction Innovation, Permit Drawing, Section, Elevation

Digitized

Two drawings of the precast concrete truss, which ultimately was not prefabricated but shot in place.

Photographs 1 Items

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 ...