Sala House: Concrete balustrade at the entrance terrace – Photographs of mock-up

01/08/1982

Construction Experiment & Mock-up

Photograph of a mock-up for the concrete balustrade together with the wooden framing support structure. Part of the balustrade mock-up is in concrete and others in cardboard.

Content of

Construction Innovation 1 Items

Sala House: Concrete balustrade and its formwork 1983

Building Detail, Low-cost Formwork

Rose colored concrete balustrade made by pouring concrete into a low-budget assembly of two sheets of sheetrock, braced, and with hand-cut styrofoam fillers shaped to the form of the void in-between.

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

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 1 Items

Sala House 1981 to 1983

700 Hillside, 94706, Albany, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in Jun-1983

Three-story tower, 20 feet by 20 feet in plan on each floor, on a wooded, sloping site. The interior structure of the house is wood post and beam with pine panelling and hand-painted surfaces, and the exterior is a red ...

Drawings 1 Items

Sala House: Concrete balustrade and its formwork - Presentation Drawings 01/01/1982

Construction Innovation, Presentation Drawing, Details

Detailed drawing depicting an axonometric of the concrete balustrade with the removable styrofoam forms, and a partial plan of the deck.

Photographs 4 Items

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