Construction materials and scaffoldings during the Middle Ages: A comparative analysis of case studies in Castile and Leon, Spain (XI-XVI centuries)
[EN] The construction technology of the Middle Ages has been analysed in several researches and, except for some studies regarding the early medieval period, most of them are generally focused on the vaults and they cover just a particular historical period. For this reason, this work has two main o...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad del País Vasco |
| Repositorio: | Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/71477 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/71477 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | architecture middle ages romanesque gothic building materials falsework scaffolding technological development |
| Resumo: | [EN] The construction technology of the Middle Ages has been analysed in several researches and, except for some studies regarding the early medieval period, most of them are generally focused on the vaults and they cover just a particular historical period. For this reason, this work has two main objectives. Firstly, to study other complementary issues of the constructive process which are also related between them, namely the amount of stone which was used in the building and the scaffolding system. Secondly, to understand the evolution of the constructive techniques during the Middle Ages thanks to a diachronic approach over several historical periods. For that purpose, a comparative analysis of six buildings has been developed, including an on-site inspection and three-dimensional modelling. Thus, specific data has been obtained and it is worth underlining that on the one hand, the constructive benefits carried out by the evolution of the vaulting system since the use of ribbed vaults (from the XIII century) have a direct relationship with the saving of material in comparison with the use of Romanesque barrel vaults. On the other hand, such a reduction in the amount of material used, together with the advances in the development of lifting machinery, could have allowed the use of lighter scaffoldings. |
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