Photograph

Sala House: Heavy timber structural frame, combined with concrete exterior walls – Photographs

01/08/1982

Work in Progress

Photograph of the ground floor timber framework, in which an aperiodic grid starts to appear, continued similarly in the other floors.

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Construction Innovation 1 Items

Sala House: Wooden post and beam, load bearing structural frame combined with red and grey cast concrete exterior walls 1982

Construction System, Combination of Timber Framework and Concrete

Timber frame out of 6"x6" douglas fir columns and beams for vertical loads only, which require pin connections only with 1/2'' rebars; wood corbels cut from six-by-six stock also enable beam to post connections with 1" bolts. The framework exposes ...

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 2 Items