Etna Street Cottage: Basket vault with layers of ultra-lightweight concrete laid over burlap – Photographs
01/01/1974Two 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.
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Etna Street Cottage: Basket vault with layers of ultra-lightweight concrete laid over burlap
1974
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 ...
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Etna Street Cottage: Hollow wooden structure filled with lightweigth concrete
1974
Flexible and low-cost construction techniques consisted of a hollow wooden structure of columns and beams, filled with lightweigth concrete, and a simple foundation made of concrete blocks, with rebars embeddedand ready to receive slab mesh.
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Etna Street Cottage: Basket vault with layers of ultra-lightweight concrete laid over burlap - Photographs
01/01/1974
Four images from the construction process, depicting various views of the domical vault roof structure during the lattice and burlap placment.
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Etna Street Cottage: Basket vault with layers of ultra-lightweight concrete laid over burlap - Photographs
01/01/1974
Three images from the construction process, depicting various views of the burlap installation stage.
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Etna Street Cottage: Basket vault with layers of ultra-lightweight concrete laid over burlap - Photographs
01/01/1974
Two images from the construction process, depicting the lightweight concrete being in place on the domical vault.