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C.E.S. Office – Martinez House: Interior beam, column and column capital detailing – Photographs

01/01/1984

Focus on Details

Three images focusing on details of connections between beams, column capitals, and ceiling borders all made of sprayed concrete.

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Construction Innovation 1 Items

C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Gunite all-concrete building 1980

Construction System, Sprayed Concrete

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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Scientific Research 1 Items

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

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 1 Items

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

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

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1984

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 1 Items

C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Interior and exterior concrete columns details - Photographs 01/07/1986

Construction Innovation, Focus on Details

Digitized

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. .