C.E.S. Office – Martinez House: Preliminary Energy Analysis

20/05/1980

Engineering Report, Energy Report

13-page revision of the 29-Apr-1980 report, which summarizes the preliminary thermal analysis of the Center for Environmental Structure’s prototype concrete house, for determining the extent to which the concrete house thermal performance exceeded that of a standard frame house with the same configuration.

Authors:

Bruce A. Corson, Marty L. Edwards, The Sunrose Design Group, Sebastopol, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Project

C.E.S. Office - Martinez House 1977 to 1984

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

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1984

Client:

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

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Jonathan Fefferman, Harissos Tsiringas, Gary Black, David Dacus, Olasheni Agbabiaka

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$120,000

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 second building completed on the Martinez site, was a 2,000 square feet house. A gunite all-concrete building as well, it was the first sizable and fully functional project in which C.E.S. used gunite, while applying all permit and specification ...

References

Correspondence

Honduras University Plan: Regarding the project Joint Venture agreement draft 05/05/1980

Project, Contractual, Design Services Agreement

Sender:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Mario Aguilar, Honduras Society Ltd., Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Medium:

Telex

Reports

C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Construction Operations Manual 16/05/1980

Project, Project Report

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

278-page document describing a sequence of building operations which were followed on the first two of the experimental structures built on the Martinez site, using the gunite techniques developed by the Center for Environmental Structure. These construction operations were named ...