Go BackBerryessa House: Foundation perimeter beam, slab and retaining walls formwork – Photographs
01/09/1981Ten images from the construction process of the foundation formwork reaching completion. As earth and stones were being used for fill-in material to be compacted, design decisions were made for the precise spacing of the wooden load bearing columns, for providing their tube pile foundations. Concurrently, the location of kitchen and bathroom sinks and tubs was finalized, necessary for establishing the water and sewer embedded pipe lines. .
Photograph:
- 1) Outline of the perimeter beam formwork of the living room and kitchen, before the retaining wall formwok was built
- 2) Close-up view of the living room perimeter formwork, with its bay window shaped as well
- 3) Another close-up view of the living room formwork with the bay window
- 4) Start placing fill-in material
- 5) Perimeters beams shaped by fill-in material; foundation piles indicated by half-cut tubes
- 6) Partial bird's eye view of the living room formwork
- 7) Studio formwork with fill-in material and half-tubes indicating the piles already poured
- 8) Formwork of staircase beams and retaining walls completed
- 9) Overview of the studio and kitchen-living room volumes with connecting staircase
- 10) Bedroom and library formwork
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Berryessa House: Initial excavations - Photographs
01/05/1981
Four views depicting the first excavation activities to form the platforms of the main volumes of the house, as indicated by the stakes placed during the initial layout on the land, which defined the corners of the house volumes.
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Berryessa House: Layout of house with stakes on the land - Photographs
01/07/1981
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Berryessa House: Foundation perimeter beam and slab formwork under construction - Photographs
01/07/1981
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