Etna street Cottage: Photographs of people during construction

01/01/1974

Working in Construction

Three images depicting the completion of light weight concrete works on the top of the first floor vaulted ceiling and arched alcove. Christopher Alexander and students involved with the project are in the pictures.

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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

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.