Go BackC.E.S. Office – Martinez House: Experimental gunnite all-concrete building; formwork for vertical elements – Photographs
01/01/1981Four photographs depicting the formwork ready for the gunite concrete works.
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Construction experiment of octagonal freestanding concrete columns, with low-cost formwork, shot in gunite
1979
Construction technique for concrete columns, with base, capital and an elegant flare where the shaft meets the base, shot in gunite into a low-cost open form. The corners of the column shaft, with a flare where it meets the base, ...
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Gunite all-concrete building
1980
Walls, columns, beams, ceilings, all made by gunite shot on a light weight and low cost guidework of lightweight wooden frame. Gunite is a high-strength concrete made of sharp sand and concrete, carried in air under high pressure, shot dry ...
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Experimental gunite all-concrete building; formwork for vertical elements - Photographs
01/01/1981
Seven photographs depicting the construction of the two-sided formwork of the corner columns of the building volumes.
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Experimental gunnite all-concrete building; wall framing - Photographs
01/08/1982
Four photographs from the stage of constructing the wood framing of the wall elements.
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Experimental gunnite all-concrete building; Photographs of construction stages
01/01/1983
Four photographs of the same wall completed in a period of eigtheen months, depicting the sequential construction stages of building the wall with gunite. The last additional photograph, showing the whole house just after the shooting of the gunite, was exhibited ...