ABSTRACT
Includes a free CD containing the full contents of the book.The rammed earth technique, in all its variants, is widespread all over the world. This enormously prevalent building technique harbours an important richness of varieties both in application and in materials used. Interventions on historical rammed earth buildings have also been carried o
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Plenary lectures
part |2 pages
Rammed earth architecture and construction
chapter |6 pages
Rammed earth architecture and construction Methodological proposal for rammed-earth wall characterization: Understanding of material in preliminary studies
F.J. Alejandre Sánchez, J.J. Martín-del-Río, F.J. Blasco López & V. Flores Alés
chapter |6 pages
Traditional braces for rammed earth walls constructions in La Manchuela albaceteña, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Q. Angulo Ibáñez, Á. Mas Tomás & J.L. Santolaria Montesinos
chapter |6 pages
The rammed earth walls in the watchtowers of the order of Santiago in Albacete province (Spain)
F.J. Castilla Pascual & J.L. Serrano Canto D. Sanz Martínez
chapter |6 pages
Montroy Islamic Tower (Valencia, Spain)
P. de Mazarredo Aznar, A. Garre García, V. Lassala Pitarch, R. Martínez García de la Cuadra & E. Méndez Saunders
chapter |6 pages
Rammed earth walls in Serón de Nágima castle (Soria, Spain): Constructive lecture
I.J. Gil Crespo
chapter |8 pages
Rammed earth architecture in the middle course of the river Júcar, Spain
J. Hidalgo Mora I. Matoses Ortells
chapter |6 pages
Rammed-earth construction in Southern Morocco: A reappraisal of the technology
J.M. López Osorio, A. Montiel Lozano & U. Martín Codes
chapter |6 pages
Analysis parameters for systematization of rammed earth walls in Granada and Almería (Andalucía, Spain)
J.Mª. Martín Civantos & M. Martín García
chapter |6 pages
Rammed earth construction in El Rincón de Ademuz (Spain)
C. Mileto, F. Vegas López-Manzanares, L. García Soriano & M. Mestre Sabater
chapter |6 pages
Restoration of the gypsum wall built with formwork in the tower of the castle of Villel (Teruel, Spain)
J.M. Sanz Zaragoza
chapter |6 pages
Rammed earth floors in historic orangeries and greenhouses—Belvedere castle in Weimar, Germany
H. Schroeder D. Ahrendt
chapter |6 pages
Valencian tapia in the walled city of Mascarell (Castellón, Spain)
F. Taberner Pastor
part |2 pages
Conservation of rammed earth
chapter |8 pages
Structural criteria for the restoration of rammed earth buildings in Barcelona province (Spain)
S. Bestraten Castells & E. Hormias Laperal
chapter |6 pages
Preliminary study to the restoration of the Tower Keep in Jérica (Castellón, Spain)
J. de Neui A. Lamas Domingo, J.V. Mañes Báguena, P. Moreno Rodríguez, G. Ramo Rocher, A. Rico Llopis & F. Rubio Rodríguez
chapter |6 pages
Intervention in a rammed earth tower at the castle of Oropesa del Mar (Castellón, Spain)
F. Font Mezquita
chapter |6 pages
Restoration of Llotja del Cànem (Castellón, Spain) walls—“Witnesses of History”
J.I. Fuster Marcos, A. Gallud Martínez & M. del Rey Aynat
chapter |6 pages
Consolidation and restoration of the Castle of Biar, Spain
A. Gallud Martínez, M. del Rey Aynat & J.I. Fuster Marcos
chapter |6 pages
Restoration of monumental rammed earth buildings in Spain between 1980 and 2011 according to the Archives of the IPCE
L. García Soriano, C. Mileto, F. Vegas López-Manzanares & S. García Saez
chapter |6 pages
Conservation of rammed earth works in the Islamic fortified complex of Calatayud (Spain)
P. Iglesias Picazo B. Rodríguez Nuere
chapter |6 pages
Restoration of rammed earth architecture: The projects funded by the Diputación Provincial de Valencia (Spain)
V. La Spina F. Martella, C. Mileto & F. Vegas López-Manzanares
chapter |6 pages
Restoration of the Castle of Sot de Chera’s Tower (Valencia, Spain)
V. López Mateu, S. Tormo Esteve & T.M. Pellicer Armiñana
chapter |6 pages
Restoration of rammed earth architecture in the Iberian Peninsula: Ongoing research
C. Mileto, F. Vegas López-Manzanares, V. Cristini & L. García Soriano
chapter |6 pages
Reflections about the restoration of a rammed earth Islamic tower
C. Mileto & F. Vegas López-Manzanares
chapter |8 pages
Restoration of two rammed earth walls at Sagunto’s castle (Valencia, Spain)
M.E. Moliner Cantos & L.M. Almena Gil C. Camps García
chapter |6 pages
Historical rammed-earth structures in Eastern Andalusia: (Spain) The restoration philosophy of the architect Prieto-Moreno
A. Romero Gallardo J.M. López Osorio
chapter |6 pages
Restoration of the stone tapia of hsin al-Qala (Castell d’Alcalà de Gallinera), Alicante, Spain
A. Soler Estrela R. Soler Verdú
chapter |6 pages
The valencian rammed-earth wall (“tapia valenciana”) in the restoration of Alaquàs Castle (Valencia, Spain)
S. Tormo Esteve, V. García Martínez, L. Cortés Meseguer & L. Palaia Pérez
chapter |6 pages
Xàtiva’s Castle (Spain)—constructive analysis of rammed-earth walls and its interventions
V. Torregrosa Soler, S. Tormo Esteve & M. Torregrosa Piquer
part |2 pages
Earthen architecture and construction
chapter |6 pages
Earthen architecture and construction Ksar of Timinoun—a Saharan traditional earthen architecture heritage
N. Abderrahim Mahindad
chapter |6 pages
Analysis and characterization of earthen architecture as a structural material: The corbelled course domes in Syria
A. Alonso Durá & A. Martínez Boquera V. Llopis Pulido
chapter |6 pages
Earthen and water architecture: University workshop in Ksar of Tamnougalt, Drâa valley (Morocco)
F.J. Bautista Escobar, M. Sevilla Romera, F. García Carrillo, M.G. Aguilar Delgado & A. Torices Sáez
chapter |6 pages
Infomes de la Construcción, Nº 523 Monograph Earth as building material, a contemporary approach
S. Bestraten Castells E. Hormias Laperal
chapter |6 pages
Embodied energy assessment of rammed earth construction in Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid, Spain)
F.J. Castilla Pascual A. Baño Nieva
chapter |6 pages
Cataloging and typological study of Mgoun Valley’s traditional fortified architecture, Morocco
G. Cimadomo, J.A. Simón Montesinos & A. Vacas Álvarez
chapter |6 pages
Earth’s role on Moroccan High Atlas villages’ urban evolution
A. García Ramos, B. Marín Zofío, M.M. Carrión Ramírez, J.M. Mateos Delgado & P. García Sáez
chapter |6 pages
Learning approach from the invariants of earthen construction in Andalusia, Spain
A.M. González Serrano, R. Rodríguez García, A. Romero Girón, J. Canivell García de Paredes & M. Ponce Ortiz de Insagurbe
chapter |6 pages
Earthen architecture landscapes as identity items in southern Morocco—Studies in Mgoun Valley, High Atlas
B. Nogueira Bernárdez, J. Asencio Juncal, T. García Ruiz de Mier & I. Álvarez-Ossorio Martínez
chapter |6 pages
Excavated housing in Crevillente (Spain): Constructive and typological study
B. Piedecausa García
chapter |6 pages
Earth constructive systems in northeastern Segovian domestic architecture
A. Romero Uriz A. Vela Cossío
chapter |6 pages
Earth architecture and construction in the colonial archaeological site of Piura la Vieja, La Matanza (Piura, Peru)
F. Vela Cossío, L.F. Abril Urmente & A. García Hermida
part |2 pages
Conservation of earthen architecture
chapter |6 pages
Cobquecura, a southern earthen Chilean town: Intervention criteria for the reconstruction after Chilean 2010 earthquake
E. Baglioni N. Jorquera Silva
chapter |6 pages
Cooperation projects for the preservation of earth architecture in Chiquitos, Bolivia
S. Bestraten Castells E. Hormias Laperal
chapter |8 pages
Earth-based repair mortars: Experimental analysis with different binders and natural fibers
M.I. Gomes T. Diaz Gonçalves
chapter |6 pages
Energy rehabilitation of buildings of earthen construction
A. Lozano Portillo, J.M. Lozano Velasco & A. Ruiz Taroncher
chapter |6 pages
Repair of rammed earth walls in the walled enclosure of Daroca (Zaragoza, Spain)
J.M. Sanz Zaragoza