Construction of the landscape of the Sierra de Cádiz through its rural architecture: the water mills
Abstract
This paper analyses a rural and industrial architecture in a specific environment: the water flour mills in the Sierra de Cádiz. These productive and anonymous constructions, strategically distributed throughout the territory, are constitutive parts of the rural culture and construct the mountain landscape, because they have collaborated in the anthropization and structuring of the territory. These mills are also small hydraulic infrastructures that respond to the hydrographic and orographic conditions of the region, in a relationship of symbiosis between natural resources and society. Despite their inherent values, they have been left out of the valuation, cataloguing and official protection. Applied research methodology (based on Bloom’s taxonomy and according to European Rural Heritage Observation Guide-CEMAT) gives value to these architectures and can enable us to deduce the importance of these constructions in the historical and logistic reading of the territory as well as its patrimonial, architectonic, artisan and cultural legacy.
Downloads
References
BENITO DEL POZO, P., CALDERÓN CALDERÓN, B., PASCUAL RUIZ-VALDEPEÑAS, H. (2016). “La gestión territorial del patrimonio industrial en Castilla y León (España): fábricas y paisajes”, Investigaciones Geográficas, Boletín del Instituto de Geografía, UNAM, 90: 136‐154. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14350/rig.52802
CABRERA GARCÍA, V. M. (2018). “Alternativas para revitalizar los molinos de viento tradicionales de las Islas Canarias”, Ge-conservación, 13: 80-92.
CAUQUELIN, A. (1990). “Le paysage et son dessein”. En: L’humanisme en géographie, Bailly, A. y Scariati, R. París: Anthropos, 101-110.
CENTOFANTI, M., BRUSAPORCI, S., LUCCHESE, V. (2016). “Historical Watermills. Architectural, Mechanical and Hydraulic Heritage”. En: Essays on the History of Mechanical Engineering. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 31. Sorge F., Genchi G. (eds). Springer, 81-97.
ESCALERA REYES, J. (1980). “Los molinos de agua en la Sierra de Cádiz (Primera campaña)”, Etnografía española, 1: 267‐374.
ESCALERA REYES, J. (1984). “Los molinos de agua en la Sierra de Cádiz (Segunda campaña)”, Etnografía española, 4: 7‐50.
GONZÁLEZ FRAILE, E. (2009). “Proyectar arquitectura es reconocer el lugar”. En: Arquitectura y construcción. El paisaje como argumento, Ramos Carranza, A. y Añón Abajas, R. M. (dirs.). Sevilla: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, 17-28.
GREGOTTI, V. (1972). El territorio de la Arquitectura. Barcelona: Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura.
GUERRA DE HOYOS, C. (2008). La contemporaneidad de la arquitectura rural: adaptación, resistencia o dilatación. Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, C.O.P.T.
JACKSON, J. B. (1984). Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press.
MEINIG, D. W. (1979). The interpretation of ordinary landscapes: geographical essays. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
OLIVA SERRANO, J. (1997). “Estructuración y reestructuración de espacios y sociedades rurales. Nuevas reflexiones sobre unos procesos no esperados”, Zainak. Cuadernos de Antropología-Etnografía, 14: 321-337.
OLIVER, P. (2006). Built to Meet Needs. Cultural Issues in Vernacular Architecture. Oxford: Elsevier.
OLMEDO GRANADOS, F. (2002). “La arquitectura agraria en Andalucía”. En: Cortijos, haciendas y lagares en Andalucía: Arquitectura de las grandes explotaciones agrarias en Andalucía. Provincia de Cádiz, Olmedo Granados, F. (coord.).Sevilla: Junta de Andalucía, C.O.P.T., 13‐19.
RAMOS-CARRANZA, A. (2013). “Construyendo formas del pensamiento”, Proyecto, progreso arquitectura. Forma y construcción en arquitectura, 8: 12‐15. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ppa.2013.i8.13
RAMOS-CARRANZA, A. y RIVERO-LAMELA, G. (2018). “El valor de las arquitecturas menores: Los molinos hidráulicos del Parque Natural Sierra de Grazalema en la Sierra de Cádiz”, Estoa, Revista de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Cuenca, 7(13): 85‐99. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18537/est.v007.n013.a07
SUÁREZ JAPÓN, J. M. (1982). El hábitat rural en la Sierra de Cádiz: un ensayo de geografía del poblamiento. Cádiz: Diputación de Cádiz.
THOREAU, H. (2002, 1862 1ª ed.). Colores de otoño. Barcelona: Torre de viento.
VELLINGA, M. (2013). “The noble vernacular”, The Journal of Architecture, 18(4): 570-590. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2013.819813
VERSACI, A., CARDACI, A., RENATO FAUZÌA, L. (2016). “Recovery and Conservation of Old Water Mills in Central Sicily”. En: Conservation of Architectural Heritage (CAH), Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 225, 15-26
ZHAI, Z., y PREVITALI, J. (2010). “Ancient vernacular architecture: Characteristics categorization and energy performance evaluation”, Energy & Buildings, 42(3): 357-365. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2009.10.002
- Copyright and intellectual property belongs to author. Author guarantees editing and publishing rights to Ge-Conservación Journal, under a Creative Commons Attribution License. This license allows others to share the work with authorship and the original source of publication acknowledgement.
- Articles can be used for scientific and educational purposes but never for commercial use, being sanctioned by law.
- The whole content of the article is author’s responsibility.
- Ge-Conservación Journal and authors may establish additional agreements for non-exclusive distribution of the work version published at the Journal (for example, on institutional repositories or on a book) with acknowledgment of the original publication on this Journal.
- Author is allowed and encouraged to disseminate his works electronically (for example, on institutional repositories or on its own website) after being published on Ge-Conservación Journal. This will contribute for fruitful interchanges as also for wider and earlier citations of the author’s works.
- Author’s personal data will only be used for the Journal purposes and will not be given to others.