RESEARCH ARTICLE

Adding new floors to old timber-framed buildings: An assessment of demolished and preserved courtyard houses in the historic centre of Madrid

  • Esperanza González-Redondo
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  • Department of Architecture, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain

Received date: 21 Jul 2021

Revised date: 14 Oct 2021

Accepted date: 26 Oct 2021

Published date: 15 Apr 2022

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2022 Higher Education Press

Abstract

The constructive analysis of Madrid’s old timber-framed collective courtyard buildings, whether demolished, preserved intact, or enlarged, has achieved the dating of relevant case studies. New parameters established in this study set a chronology based on front sector original projects: old (1737e1788), pre-modern (1788e1847) and modern (1847e1892). The onsite inspection and archival research point to ongoing misleading construction in the historic Southern area. Some modern corralas erected on top of pre-existing buildings confirm the initial hypothesis. First dimensioning rules for new façades and the stability required in old ones before adding new storeys, maintaining the original masonry or double-layered system, are discovered. Undated buildings suggest their possible origin a la malicia and a later transformation into transitional corralas. Finally, an analysis of the demolished courtyards narrows down the dating and points to new conjectures in some preserved by showing their uneven layout, old features, and structural discordances in each sector.

Cite this article

Esperanza González-Redondo . Adding new floors to old timber-framed buildings: An assessment of demolished and preserved courtyard houses in the historic centre of Madrid[J]. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2022 , 11(2) : 255 -277 . DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2021.10.009

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