Abstract
Los nuevos métodos interactivos de equilibrio para diseñar y analizar estructuras de fábrica han facilitado la construcción de este tipo de estructuras con un lenguaje formal normalmente no asociado a las estructuras a compresión. Estos avances también han reavivado el interés por la bóveda tabicada, y han dado lugar a un redescubrimiento de esta técnica constructiva tradicional.
 
 Los procesos constructivos han sido adaptados para garantizar que las nuevas bóvedas tabicadas de formas complejas puedan continuar materializándose de una manera económica. Por ejemplo, se han introducido sistemas de cimbrado más baratos y sencillos. Así mismo, se ha experimentado con una gran variedad de materiales que permitan construir estructuras abovedadas más sostenibles con recursos locales. 
 
 Este artículo presenta una revisión de las últimas innovaciones en técnica tabicada basándose en las obras más representativas de los últimos años con respecto a la forma, el método constructivo y el uso de materiales.
Highlights
The contemporary renaissance of tile vaulting has been closely linked to the development of new interactive equilibrium methods for the design of masonry structures
Like Bergós, he named some built examples with “flat deck vaulting on or between stone ribs” and dated the first reference to a tile vault in the beginning of the 15th century: “The earliest reference of any sort of which I am aware is in a letter of King Martin I “el Humano” of Aragon in the early fifteenth century about the construction of the capilla real of the Cathedral of Barcelona in which the king praised the qualities of the Catalan vault
This paper aims to identify the key contributions to the tile vaulting technique in the 21st century by presenting a review of the most relevant tile vaulted projects in the past few years regarding the novelty of their shape and the innovation in the fields of construction and materials
Summary
The contemporary renaissance of tile vaulting has been closely linked to the development of new interactive equilibrium methods for the design of masonry structures. For Fortea, tile vaulting did not appear suddenly; it was the “culmination of an evolutionary process in which the arising obstacles have been gradually overcome” (7) He argues that this evolution required a place where gypsum, brick and vault construction without formwork are known and commonly used. His argumentation takes us on a very interesting trip starting in Mesopotamia and mainly through the Spanish regions of Valencia and Andalucía, where, as described by Fortea, there are built examples of tile vaults from before the 14th Century. He places the first references of the technique known as tile vaulting in Almería in Andalucía, in the 11th Century
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