All people who love traditional architecture are invited to participate in this workshop where we will visit a dry stone construction and learn its technique. Participate and get a guide to the technique in the Rincón!
In 2018 UNESCO inscribed the dry stone technique within the Intangible Cultural Heritage List. This technique is developed in the Rincón de Ademúz region, where it was used for the pre-industrial construction of terrace walls, walls between fields, plaster ovens, barracks and haystacks. This type of architecture linked to livestock and agriculture has begun to be catalogued in the Rincón de Ademuz, and adding together the different municipalities, more than 300 constructions of this technique have been located.
To educate and raise awareness about the values of rural heritage, we resume the workshops on traditional architecture of the Rincón de Ademuz organized between 2007 and 2013 by the RES-Arquitectura research group. This year we start with an introductory workshop to be held during the II Symposium ‘La Cruz de los tres reinos’, by the hand of the Cultural Institute and Studies of the Rincón de Ademuz and architects Eva Tortajada, Álvaro Vázquez and Sara Colomer, specialized in heritage.
Popular constructions are characterized by an economy of material and human resources, looking for savings, using local materials and simple techniques appropriate to the climate of the place. This type of architecture so undervalued is, today, what we call sustainable architecture, and it is important that those who will live and build in our future know the possibilities of these constructions: km0 materials, almost zero carbon footprint, sustainable with the environment and with the resilience to build new architecture in the traditional way.
Organizers: Eva Tortajada, Álvaro Vázquez-Esparza and Sara Colomer
REGISTRATION: evtormon@upv.es
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/376255694592750/
Exact location Google Maps: https://bit.ly/3RlpPcG
VIEW: Dry stone technique, intangible heritage of UNESCO
SEE GUIDE TO THE DRY STONE TECHNIQUE IN EL RINCÓN DE ADEMUZ
