Urban vernacular architecture in the Middle Ages in Galicia, Spain

Abstract

[EN] The emergence of the first urban settlements during the High Middle Ages in Galicia allowed the appearanceof a typology of half-timbered houses with very heterogeneous characteristics according to the differentGalician regions. Its general characteristics were a ground floor made of rammed earth, granite orschist stone and an upper floor made with a wooden framework system used as structural closures withdifferent fillings (clay, straw, stone, brick or decking). The urban fabric of these settlements has beenanalyzed, studying the survival of the medieval lots. A small number of half-timbered houses of medievalorigin have been found. The extension of this typology throughout the Galician geography allowed us torethink part of the existing imaginary about vernacular construction in Galicia and contextualize themedieval Galician urban phenomenon within the European context.