Abstract
Amayuelas is a very small village in a rural, economically depressed Spanish area. The construction of ten private houses l Vas recently made by traditional methods, earth and adobe walls, passive and active solar design, 10lV environmental impact materials and with the addition of new technologies such as solar thermal collectors and photovoltaic cells. The buildings were finished September 2001.The owner is the mutual association Entramado . The experience was supported by European program s and the use of earth walls was laboratory tested by the Departamento de Edificacion de la Universidad de Valladolid, in the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valladolid (Spa in) This co-operative was helped by the ecological town of Amayuelas and found collaboration from the NGOd Arquitectos sin Fronteras Castilla y Leon . The experience provides a source of valuable results, and it suggests a code model for earth construction in this area: 1. Revitalising depressed areas, through the realisation of new settlements. 2. Involving different decision-makers with solidarity, making stronger the participation and new systems of co-operation between community and neighbourhood to recuperation of social space. 3. Building respectfully with the environment and landscape, in a sustainable way. 4. Linking old and new technologies, and recovering old tradition systems with a good level of comfort.
Highlights
2. 1nvolving difJerent decision-makers wit/¡ solidarity, making stronger t/¡e participation and new systems ofco-operation between community and neighbourhood to recuperation of social space
The construction often private houses was recently made by traditional methods
Entramado n. The experience was supported by European programs
Summary
Amayuelas is a very small village in a rural, economically depressed Spanish area. The construction often private houses was recently made by traditional methods, earth and adobe walls, passive and active solar design, low environmental impact materials and with the addition ofnew technologies such as solar thermal collectors and photovoltaic cells. Dentro de este panorama general, en el municipio de Amayuelas se ha realizado un esfuerzo muy notable por revivir el pueblo y proponer una nueva forma de vida en el campo. La propuesta había de conseguir hacer compatibles tres premisas fundamentales de funcionamiento: el rendimiento económico, una forma de vida que aceptara y respetara las condiciones naturales del entorno, y la recuperación del patrimonio histórico y arquitectónico. Para la ubicación de estas actividades, que suponen más de una veintena de puestos de trabajo, ha sido necesario recuperar dieciséis edificios de uso y construcción tradicionales, entre los que hay un palomar, bodegas, un colmenar, un lagar, un molino, un albergue, un aulario, etc., mostrando cómo es posible dar un nuevo uso social al patrimonio (Foto 1). Simultáneamente, las nuevas construcciones deberían adecuarse a parámetros de comodidad actuales y responder al nuevo enfoque de respeto al medio ambiente
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