Photograph

Etna Street Cottage: Hollow wooden structure filled with lightweigth concrete – Photographs

01/01/1974

Construction Process

Two images depicting the second floor structure in a more advanced stage of construction.

Photograph:

Content of

Construction Innovation 1 Items

Etna Street Cottage: Hollow wooden structure filled with lightweigth concrete 1974

Construction System, Timber Framework

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.

References

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

Etna Street Cottage 1974

Etna Street, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1974

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 ...

Academic Courses 1 Items

Etna Street cottage: The students built a small house, while developing an experimental building system in which the construction patterns would be incorporated and tested 1974

Academic,

The assignment of the class was to test the first construction patterns, before they were incorporated in “A Pattern Language” published in 1977. It was a building experiment, at the end of which the Etna Street cottage was built, experimenting ...