Martinez Tile Glazing Workshop: The first experimental all-gunite concrete building; columns and beams shooting concrete – Photographs of 2nd step

01/01/1979

Construction Process

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 there, while in others has been removed.

Photographer:

Harissos Tsiringas/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Negative

Characteristics:

35mm, B&W

Content of

Construction Innovation

Martinez Tile Glazing Workshop: The first experimental all-gunite concrete building - construction of columns and beams 1979

Construction System, Sprayed Concrete

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Harissos Tsiringas

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 ...

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Scientific Research

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Innovation

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

Tile Glazing Workshop 1978 to 1981

4207 Arthur Road, 94553, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Offices & Workshops, Realized , Construction completed in 1981

Client:

Center for Environmetal Structure - C.E.S. Directors

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, others

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project stages:

Layout on the site by C.E.S. Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions Users involved in the construction Innovative construction methods

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 ...

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