C.E.S. Office – Martinez House: Experimental gunnite all-concrete building; wall framing – Photographs

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Seven photographs depicting the construction of the two-sided formwork of the corner columns of the building volumes.

Four photographs depicting the formwork ready for the gunite concrete works.

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 ...