Etna Street Cottage: Hollow wooden structure filled with lightweigth concrete – Basket vault with layers of ultra-lightweight concrete laid over burlap – Photographs

01/01/1974

Construction Process

Two images depicting the finished exterior connection details of the columns and beam around the main entrance wall opening in relation to the vaulted roofs.

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Construction Innovation 2 Items

Etna Street Cottage: Basket vault with layers of ultra-lightweight concrete laid over burlap 1974

Construction System, Vaulted Roof & Ceiling

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 ...
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.

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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, ...

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 ...