Construction Yard: Sprayed Concrete Building System – Photographs of mock-up

01/01/1977

Construction Experiment & Mock-up

Three images depicting the three stages for the construction of mock-up comprising a sloped roof with a barrel-vault ceiling. The first image depicts the wood formwork set in place; the second image shows the wood formwork with reinforcing wire-mesh being placed in it, and the third one the completed, sprayed concrete wall and sloped roof with the vaulted ceiling.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital, Print, Negative

Characteristics:

8"x10", 4"x5", B&W

Content of

Construction Innovation

Construction Yard: Experiments in spayed concrete 1977

Construction System, Sprayed Concrete, Sloped Roof & Vaulted Ceiling

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, UCB students

Spayed concrete experiments and mockups, conducted with graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, as a special study course. The mockups included the construction of vaults, walls, columns, floors, beams, arches, in sprayed concrete over steel armature .

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, ...