Go BackC.E.S. Office – Martinez House: Experimental gunite all-concrete building; columns and beams shooting concrete – Photographs of 2nd step
01/01/1979Eight 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.
Photograph:
- 1) Alexander with the assisatnce of his apprentice Herman Diedrich prepare the equipment
- 2) The concrete mixer set up
- 3) Shooting gunite in the column starting form the bottom, using the open sides of the formwork
- 4) Another instance of shooting gunite in the columns
- 5) Column filled up to mid-height; excess concrete not yet removed
- 6) Concrete in column reaching top part
- 7) Bottom section of column filled with concrete
- 8) Starting the shooting of gunite from the top for filling up beams
References
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Experimental gunite all-concrete building; columns and beams formwork erection - Photographs of 1st step
01/01/1979
Five photographs with overviews of the formwork for the columns and beams of the building, adapted to the requirements of the gunite method.
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Experimental gunite all-concrete building; columns and beams formwork erection - Photographs of 1st step
01/01/1979
Nine photographs with close-ups, focusing on the details of the column and beam formworks which accommodate gunite requirements.
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Experimental gunite all-concrete building; columns and beams shooting concrete - Photographs of 2nd step
01/01/1979
Ten photographs showing columns and beams with the shot-concrete already encased in the formworks, after excess concrete had been removed.