Photograph

Etna street Cottage: Photographs of the layout process

01/01/1974

Layout Process on Site

Two images depicting the initial step of staking out the position of the cottage on the lot.

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Content of

Project 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 ...

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

The Layout Process of Buildings on the Land - Visualization at Full Scale on Site

Each act of building needs to have a positive effect on its surroundings; to complete them, preserve their structure, make them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them. Each new building is more alive when it ...

Academic Courses 1 Items

People Rebuilding Berkeley 1974

Academic,

Development of a planning process for the City of Berkeley in which individual neighborhoods had the responsibility for their own improvement through a process based on the use of patterns at a very local scale .

Course Material 1 Items

Arch 209, Spring 1974 - On construction: Student paper on the Etna Street building project 01/01/1973

Academic, Student Work, Paper

10-page student paper reflecting on the process of building the Etna Street Cottage following a construction pattern language. An attempt to formulate the aspects of the followed process which were successful and those that failed the objectives of the experiment.