Traditional adobe buildings in the Alto Ribatejo Region

• Jorge Mascarenhas ^[1] ; Maria de Lurdes Belgas ^[1]
  1. [1] Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (IPT)
• Localización: Intangibility Matters: IPERION CH International Conference on the values of tangible heritage: IMaTTe 2017 / coord. por Marluci Menezes, Dória Rodrigues Costa, Jose Delgado Rodrigues, 2017, ISBN 9789724922959, págs. 355-362
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Earth was the first material moulded by man to build houses, its use dates back to many millenia. Half the world´s population currently lives in earth buildings made with different technologies. The most widely used earth construction techniques are rammed earth, adobe and tabique.

    The rammed earth and adobe techniques produce resistant walls. Whereas rammed earth forms a monolithic structure made of tamped earth between sidewalls on site, the adobe technique consists in small-block masonry made of earth in timber moulds and dried in the sun. The tabique technique is used to build non-reistant partition walls of earth that is applied on wood strips, also used in front walls.