The unique material architecture: undermined architecture in Levante. Spain

Abstract

The work done tries to substantiate, by experimental means, the viability of the passive project undermined by excavation, in the geographical-climate area of Levante. The investigation develops in three workings lines in a parallel way; geological, environmental and formal which are refered to the outstanding variables of the project which modify these architectures as bioclimatic and undermining ones. The result of the investigation is the real knowledge of the ambient comfort of the geological and topological which has been produced in this architecture. Finally the knowledge obtained in an empiric way allows connecting such conditions with the architectural form and making out the operative and planed yardsticks. This report starts the spread of these studies with the summarized exposition of the conclusions relative to the geological problem, by means of a simple classification of the different types of the studied sites: horizontal plane, watercourse edge, graded slope, vertical plane and mixed one.