Photograph

C.E.S. Office – Martinez House: Concrete balustrade in arches & seat – Photographs

01/01/1979

Focus on Details

Detail of the balustrade connected to the bench, made of sprayed concrete.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Outdoor walls and seat with balustrade in arches 1979

Construction System, Sprayed Concrete

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, David Dacus

The seat with its balustrade, built next to the tile workshop in Martinez, were built solely with sprayed concrete. Styrofoam or polysterene cut-outs to shape were used and placed against a backing of sheetrock, providing an ultra-low-cost formwork. Then concrete ...

Contents

Photographs

References

Scientific Research

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Innovation

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, ...

Projects

C.E.S. Office - Martinez House 1977 to 1984

4207 Arthur Road, 94553, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1984

Client:

Center for Environmetal Structure - C.E.S. Directors

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Jonathan Fefferman, Harissos Tsiringas, Gary Black, David Dacus, Olasheni Agbabiaka

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$120,000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by C.E.S. Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions Users involved in the construction Innovative construction methods

The second building completed on the Martinez site, was a 2,000 square feet house. A gunite all-concrete building as well, it was the first sizable and fully functional project in which C.E.S. used gunite, while applying all permit and specification ...

Photographs

C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Concrete balustrade in arches & seat - Photographs 01/01/1979

Construction Innovation, Exterior View

Photographer:

Artemis Anninou/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital, Slide

Characteristics:

Color

Three photographs of the bench and the ornated balustrade, built next to the tile workshop; people using it on two of them.