Rammed earth conservation / editors C. Mileto, F. Vegas & V. Cristini.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Mileto, Camilla.

Vegas, Fernando.

Cristini, Valentina.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Rammed Earth Conservation (1st : 2012 : Valencia, Spain)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Building--Congresses.

Building.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (734 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, ©2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Book deals with rammed earth architecture and its restoration, and with the construction techniques and restoration of all earthen structures.

Contents:

Front Cover; Table of contents; Preface; Organization and committees; Conference sponsors; Plenary lectures; "Pisé": Evolution, innovations, resistances and future directions; Which course of action for earthen architectural heritage preservation?; Earthen architecture: Clay feet or a feat of clay; Restoration of rammed earth structures; The Nasrid ramparts of the Albaicín (Granada, Spain): An analysis of materials and building techniques; Torres Bermejas: Conserving the past; Rammed earth architecture and construction

Methodological proposal for rammed-earth wall characterization: Understanding of material in preliminary studiesThe formalization as an identification process of a constructive way: The rammed earth of Cherchell (Algeria); Traditional braces for rammed earth walls constructions in La Manchuela albaceteña, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; Godelleta's watchtower (Valencia, Spain); Earthen architectural heritage in the South Piedmont area (Italy): Strategies for its re-evaluation and for local territorial sustainable development

The rammed earth walls in the watchtowers of the order of Santiago in Albacete province (Spain)Montroy Islamic Tower (Valencia, Spain); Sustainability lessons from the past: Rammed earth architecture in Vojvodina, Serbia; The monitoring of rammed earth experimental walls and characterization of rammed earth samples; Earthen architecture in Galicia (Spain): Rammed earth in Terra de Lemos; Rammed earth walls in Serón de Nágima castle (Soria, Spain): Constructive lecture; Rammed earth-its use in new building and training as a building-school

Patrimonial rammed earth structures at the Sierra Nevada, MexicoCharacterization of compressed earth blocks built with natural low-cost energy stabilizers; Rammed earth architecture in the middle course of the river Júcar, Spain; About the rediscovery of the tapia valenciana; Clay in architecture: Slovenia and beyond; From the ground up: Building the Dirt Works Studio; On perceptions of rammed earth; The construction of the Valencian rammed earth walls in the Corpus Christi College-Seminary in Valencia (Spain); Rammed-earth construction in Southern Morocco: A reappraisal of the technology

Analysis parameters for systematization of rammed earth walls in Granada and Almería (Andalucía, Spain)Rammed earth construction in El Rincón de Ademuz (Spain); Building rammed earth walls in the municipal swimming pool in Toro (Zamora, Spain); Introduction to traditional rammed-earth building in the Aragonian valley of Jiloca (Spain); The citadel of Reina (Badajoz, Spain)-10 years of interventions on its walls; Rammed earth architecture in La Hacienda de Santa Teresa Ixtafiayuca, Mexico; Restoration of the gypsum wall built with formwork in the tower of the castle of Villel (Teruel, Spain)

Rammed earth floors in historic orangeries and greenhouses-Belvedere castle in Weimar, Germany

Notes:

"A Balkema book."

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-136-19953-5

0-429-21686-6

0-203-08565-5

9780429216862

OCLC:

818865693

Publisher Number:

9780415621250