Go BackAn American House for the Eighties: Evolution of the All-Masonry House; includes the final report and a draft of it
01/09/1981Professional Report on the process of building and the new construction method applied to the Martinez house and workshop. Contents: II. Acknowledgements; III. Notes of Involvement; IV. Preface; V. Introduction; VI. Precedents: a) Construction Patterns, b) Building Projects, c) Masonry vs. Wood; VII. First Imprecision: a) All-gunite vs. All-masonry, b) Problems, c) New Approach, d) Alternatives; VIII. Second Imprecision: a) Masonry with Wood Overtones, b) Fear of the Marketplace, c) Examples; IX. New Vision; X. Power of Necessary Acts: a) Workshop, b) Terrace, Balustrade and Garden Seat, c) Wood Language, d) The Time for Change: XI. List of Sources; XII. Appendices.
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Outdoor walls and seat with balustrade in arches
1979
The seat with its balustrade, built next to the tile workshop in Martinez, were built solely with sprayed concrete. Styrofoam or polysterene cut-outs to shape were used and placed against a backing of sheetrock, providing an ultra-low-cost formwork. Then concrete ...
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Martinez Tile Glazing Workshop: The first experimental all-gunite concrete building - construction of columns and beams
1979
Walls, columns, vaults, beams, ceilings, all made by gunite shot on a light weight and low cost guidework of lightweight wooden frame. Gunite is a high-strength concrete made of sharp sand and concrete, carried in air under high pressure, shot ...
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Gunite all-concrete building
1980
Walls, columns, beams, ceilings, all made by gunite shot on a light weight and low cost guidework of lightweight wooden frame. Gunite is a high-strength concrete made of sharp sand and concrete, carried in air under high pressure, shot dry ...