ABSTRACT
The text presents results about a preliminary study, undertaken in a couple of rural buildings scattered throughout the green belt of Valencia city (Spain), well known as an area featured by historic orchards and orange groves. The Alquería Falcó and Alquería Tallarròs are two ancient farmhouses, dating back to medieval origins that have changed through the centuries, maintaining their features in spite of decay and lack of maintenance. The study has tried to overcome typological approaches that have characterized expert studies in the 1980s and it has reached a first material characterization of the buildings, above all thanks to a focus on local construction techniques and on raw materials. This work, undertaken in the frame of Bachelor Final Projects, helps to preserve these two fragile buildings, considering that they are testimony of local vernacular architecture and they are examples of self-generated mechanisms linked with traditional architecture.
