Sala House Addition
1986 to 1988Two-storey 700 square feet addition to the exisitng house, connected with it at the west facing wall. The extension includes a living room, a bedroom and a bathroom with hot tub.
Wood post and beam interior with pine paneling and hand-painted surfaces, and hand-made ceramic leopards in the living room floor. Exterior multicolored concrete wall.
Terraces and gardens and a workshop face the south side of the building.
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Second Sala House: Concrete floor with leopard inserts
1987
Red concrete floor with yellow ceramic leopard inserts for the interior of second Sala House.
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Second Sala House: Leopard molds
1987
Yellow painted wooden molds for the manufacturing of the clay leopards to be used as inserts in the colored concrete floor.
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Second Sala House: Marble terrazzo tub
1988
Hand worked marble terrazzo bath tub interior, in green with yellow stars.
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Sala House: Design Agreement for addition to home of Mr. and Mrs. Andre Sala
02/04/1986
6-page signed design agreement between Mr. and Mrs. Andre Sala and the Center for Environmental Structure, for designing a two story addition to their existing house of about 700 square feet. Work will be undertaken in three phases including preliminary ...
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Sala House: Construction contract for addition to home of Mr. and Mrs. Andre Sala
27/09/1986
16-page construction contract between Mr. and Mrs. Andre Sala and the Center for Environmental Structure as contractor, for the purpose of building the two story addition to their existing house. The addition should be built as shown in the drawings ...
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Sala House: Contract summary on house extension
07/11/1987
Two pages summarizing the credits for omitted construction activities, amounts for extra activities performed, with sums of paid and outstanding amounts.
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Sala House: Certificate of Occupancy for the house extension
25/07/1988
Certification that structure is in compliance with City regulations.
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Sala House with its addition: Photographs of garden
01/06/1988
Professional photograph of the main house garden lower terrace with the 1988 addition viewed at its right.
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Sala House with its addition: Photographs of the building
01/11/1989
Four views of the house, with the 1988 addition to the house.
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Sala House Addition: Photographs of building details
01/11/1989
Four views of the 1988 addition to the house, with focus on wall segments, windows and ornaments.
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References
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Second Sala House: Leopard Molds
01/01/1987
Wooden mold, which was used for casting the leopard-shaped tiles in clay.
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Second Sala House: Leopard Molds
01/01/1987
Two full-scale paper mock-ups of a leopard figure, one mounted on a square piece of Plexiglas and the second on plywood.
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Second Sala House: Leopard Molds
01/01/1987
One full-scale, leopard-shaped, clay tile sample. The clay leopard-shaped tiles, after being painted were inserted in the concrete floor.
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Second Sala House: Concrete floor with leopard inserts - Photographs
01/01/1987
Close up view of the porcelain leopards embedded in the colored concrete floor.
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Second Sala House: Leopard molds used during the pouring of the concrete floor - Photographs of mold
01/01/1987
The wooden leopard mold.
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Second Sala House: Concrete floor with leopard inserts - Photographs
01/01/1987
Two images of the colored concrete floor with the porcelain leopards embedded.
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