WK 10C: Final Foundations

Yes, that's a cement truck, a city garbage truck , AND a concrete pumping rig all elbowing for the same space.
So I’ve left a lot out over the past couple of posts so it’s probably surprising to see the progress. Over the past three weeks we’ve poured grade beams for the upper foundations, built the lower masonry walls, installed pipe and gravel for drainage around the lower foundations, backfilled the lower walls, and begun construction on the upper masonry walls of the first level of the house. So to use the parlance of the trades, we’re “out of the ground”. It took a lot of effort to get here and there is still a lot to be done before the end of the foundation phase.

I’m going to be shutting the job down for a month while I go to Berlin to teach Design Studio on behalf of Woodbury University here in L.A. Upon my return in August, we’ll crank things up again and start the final phase of the masonry/foundations.

This is the state of the work as of the 3^rd of June. You can see that only the cages for the grade beams or the foundation of the building are in place.

This photo was taken on the 27^th of June. Our foundations are all poured, and the first “lift” of the wall is built. The slab area for the first level is backfilled and ready to go, and the building is starting to take shape.