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Koss Residence
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We started pouring the walls around the media room. The west wall is a test of the architectural concrete forms, ties, and control joint layout we'll be using for the exposed beam facing east.
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February 8, 2000 Forming for the west pool-room wall in the distance. Note that the forms have been stripped from the south-side of the media room wall. |
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February 8, 2000 Digging the utility trench (running from the street to the guest house location). |
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February 8, 2000 Guest house slab. |
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February 10, 2000 Excavated utility trench. |
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February 10, 2000 Pouring the west pool wall. |
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February 12, 2000 Media room walls. |
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February 12, 2000 Plenty of fun toys! |
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February 15, 2000 Panorama of media room and pool wall.
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February 15, 2000 Architectural wall panel test. Looks like we had a failure of the high density board (note the horizontal rippling, especially in the bottom panel). We're planning on using HD board from a different supplier in a second test wall. |
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February 16, 2000 The media room floor - ready to pour the slab. |
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February 16, 2000 Schwing!. |
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February 16, 2000 Guest house framing begins! |
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February 18, 2000
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February 18, 2000 Mechanical room takes shape. |
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February 18, 2000 Structural steel in on site. |
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February 18, 2000 Utility trench conduit. |
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February 22, 2000 Guest house framing proceeds quickly!
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February 22, 2000 Big crane for steel erection. |
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February 22, 2000 These guys walk around on these steel girders like they were flat on the ground; but it's a 25 foot drop over the pool bottom. You wouldn't want to fall from up there even with that safety line. |
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February 22, 2000 Erecting the steel. |
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February 23, 2000
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February 25, 2000 Click on the panorama below for a full size version (100K).
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February 25, 2000 The guest house loft takes shape. |
