Martinez Tile Glazing Workshop: The first experimental all-gunite concrete building; columns and beams formwork erection – Photographs of 1st step

Walls, columns, vaults, beams, ceilings, all made by gunite shot on a light weight and low cost guidework of lightweight wooden frame. Gunite is a high-strength concrete made of sharp sand and concrete, carried in air under high pressure, shot ...

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, ...

The first building completed on the Martinez site, was an experimental gunite all-concrete building, with 200 square feet of floor area, concrete vaulted ceiling and concrete pitched roof. It was used as the tile glazing workshop, equipped with a kiln ...

Twenty-one photographs with close-ups, focusing on the details of the column and beam formworks, built specifically to enable the gunite requirements.

Fifteen photographs showing the setting up of the equipment for spraying the concrete, as well as the spraying of concrete in the formworks of columns and beams.

Twenty-eight photographs showing the building and its columns and beams with the shot-concrete already encased in the formworks; there are overviews and close-ups of its structural members. In some of the columns the excess concrete after the spraying is still ...