Constructive and earthquake-resistant aspects of modelled-earth, a technique in ancient Peru
- Autores: Henry Eduardo Torres Peceros
- Localización: Vernacular Heritage: Culture, People and Sustainability: Heritage 2022 International Conference / coord. por Camilla Mileto, Fernando Vegas López-Manzanares, Valentina Cristini, Lidia García Soriano, 2022, ISBN 978-84-1396-020-3, págs. 433-439
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Modelled earth was a pre-Inca construction technique used extensively in ancient Peru. It comprised placing portions of mud in horizontal rows to build walls and large buildings. It comprised placing portions of mud in horizontal rows to build walls and large buildings without the aid of molds, unlike the rammed earth of European origin. Unfortunately, there is a lack of written, graphic or oral evidence that would help to better understand how pre-Columbian walls were made. Therefore, the research was based on the study of the buildings to plan hypotheses about the construction procedure and their structural performance, given that the area where they were built is highly seismic. The research showed that the ancient Peruvians used seismic-resistance strategies in their buildings comprising the use of segmentation of the earth structures, with the criterion of keeping the blocks joined to each ot her using support planes to form the final architectural volume. The article suggests that seismic energy was dissipated through these joints, and it got a greater deformation capacity without the total collapse of the structure.
