WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development
Print ISSN: 1790-5079, E-ISSN: 2224-3496
Volume 11, 2015
Tabique Walls Typologies and Building Details in the Alto Douro Wine Region
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Abstract: Tabique is one of the main Portuguese traditional building techniques which use raw materials as earth, wood and stone. In general, a tabique building component as a wall is formed by a timber structure more or less complex, filled and plastered by a composite earth based material. The earth based material has an important role in this system because it protects the internal timber structure as well as it is a finishing. The Alto Douro Wine Region, located in the interior of Northern Portugal, added to the UNESCO’s Word Heritage Sites List in December 2001 as an ‘evolved continuing cultural landscape’, is rich in terms of tabique heritage constructions. Meanwhile, previous research works have shown that the existing tabique constructions, in this region, present a generalized advanced stage of deterioration. This aspect associated to the fact that there is still a lack of scientific studies done in this field motivated the writing of this paper, which its main objective is to identify the diversity of structural timber tabique walls solutions and building details presents in the tabique constructions located in Lamego municipality, in the Alto Douro Wine Region, in order to motivate and give guidelines to the preservation of this important legacy.
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Keywords: Alto Douro Wine Region, tabique, timber structures, traditional building techniques, raw materials
Pages: 95-107
WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-5079 / 2224-3496, Volume 11, 2015, Art. #11