ABSTRACT
La Azohía is a small fishing town in the Region of Murcia (Spain) in the Mazarrón Bay where even today it is still possible to find traditional construction where earth has a unique use and carries out a specific function. This is the case of láguena or roya earth, a type of expanding clay, historically used to make flat roofs or terrados. It is a structural solution intimately linked to the area and the local climatology that currently can be studied and analysed thanks to the examples that are still preserved. The text gives a description of this material, its structural technique, its construction and the state of the building’s physical condition with the finality of leaving a record of one of the many uses this type of earth has in vernacular architecture found in Murcia.
