Etna Street Cottage: Basket vault with layers of ultra-lightweight concrete laid over burlap – Photographs

Construction of an ultra-lightweight concrete vault, built over box columns and beams filled with concrete. Two different methods were used; lightweight concrete over woven basket, lath and burlap for solid vaulted roofs, and burlap impregnated with fiberglass resin, over woven ...

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, ...

Experimental building project, two-story 400 sq. ft. cottage, with a hollow wooden structure filled with concrete and featherweight concrete vaults. Completed in ten weeks, without a building permit at the back of the C.E.S. office on Etna Street, and was ...

Four images from the construction process, depicting various views of the domical vault roof structure during the lattice and burlap placment.

Two interior views from the construction process, depicting the lattice structure of the vault, sitting on the boxed-in lightweight concrete columns and beams, with burlap being placed partially.

Two images from the construction process, depicting the lightweight concrete being in place on the domical vault.