Go BackC.E.S. Office – Martinez House: Experimental gunite all-concrete building; vaulted ceiling and pitched roof construction process – Photographs of 5th step of construction process
01/01/1979Seven photographs depicting the fifth step of the vaulted ceiling and the pitched roof construction process, which includes the installation of thermal insulation sheets.
Photograph:
- 1) Sheet metal folded over the ceiling vault simulates the slope of the roof
- 2) Alexander preparing the thermal insulation sheets
- 3) Thermal insulation fixed as per the pitched roof slope & used as the formwork for the roof concrete
- 4) Thermal insulation sheets installed; the gaps in-between allow the concrete ceiling rebars to connect with the roof concrete
- 5) Alexander ties the wire mesh, laid over the insulation boards, to the portruding rebars & chicken wire
- 6) Roof being cleaned & prepared for shooting the gunite layers
- 7) Closer view of the previous image
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Experimental gunite all-concrete building; vaulted ceiling and pitched roof construction process - Photographs of 1st step of construction process
01/01/1979
Six photographs depicting the first step of the vaulted ceiling and the pitched roof construction process, which included the making of a full scale mock-up of the middle raised section of the ceiling formwork, out of metal and plywood. .
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Experimental gunite all-concrete building; vaulted ceiling and pitched roof construction process - Photographs of 2nd step of construction process
01/01/1979
Thirteen photographs depicting the second step of the vaulted ceiling and the pitched roof construction process, which ends with the completion of the vaulted ceiling formwork.
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Experimental gunite all-concrete building; vaulted ceiling and pitched roof construction process - Photographs of 3rd step construction stage
01/01/1979
Fifteen photographs depicting the third step of the vaulted ceiling and the pitched roof construction process, which concluded with the shooting of layers of gunite on the barrel vault formwork, to ensure the proper covering of the reinforcement.
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