The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for the Homeless: Exterior wall cladding with hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework – Permit Drawings
2 2) Precast panel details

Series of experiments and tests performed in the C.E.S. workshop in Martinez, for prefabricating wall-segment panels flat on the ground with the hand-glazed tiles, the required reinforcement and concrete layer, and then testing the procedure of lifting them in place. ...

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, ...

Ten photographs of a full scale test tiled wall panel, the size and shape of an exterior wall segment with a window opening, depicting the procedure of its fabrication. The test explored the possibilities and difficulties of its prefabrication and ...

Nine images from the process of moving the full scale prefabricated test tiled wall panel out of the workshop and lifting it, for testing its weight and behaviour. Finally the prefabrication of the tiled wall panels was not selected as ...

Four views of a full scale test tiled wall panel, the size and shape of an exterior wall segment with a window opening. They depict the first stage of its prefabrication procedure, during which tiles are laid out in relation ...