C.E.S. Office – Martinez House: Interior and exterior concrete columns details – Photographs

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, ...

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 ...

Three photographs of a constuction experiment, for testing the detailing of the concrete column, as well as the sequence of operations required for building it in sprayed concrete.

View from the interior, through the porch, with focus on the columns, with flare on the shaft to meet the base and capital, made with low cost formwork and shot with gunite .

Two photographs of the entrance porch columns, with flares on the column shaft, forming a tall base and a transition towards the capital, which interlocks with the beam. .