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

01/01/1977

Construction Experiment & Mock-up

Three images depicting the formwork of the wall-system mock-up ready for the spraying of concrete and the mock-up of two concrete round columns, supporting an arch.

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Construction Innovation 1 Items

Construction Yard: Experiments in spayed concrete 1977

Construction System, Sprayed Concrete, Sloped Roof & Vaulted Ceiling

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 .

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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, ...