The importance of graphic representation in monastic hydraulics: Saint-Gall, Christchurch and Vallbona de les Monges
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Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ingeniería CivilGrupo de Ensayo, Simulación y Modelización de Estructuras (GRESMES)
Tecnología y Sostenibilidad en Arquitectura
Keywords
HistoryConstruction
Hydraulic
Cartography
Cistercian
Monastery
Abbey
Ingeniería de la Construcción
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Abstract
In the fourth century Christian monasticism left the anchoritic lifestyle to begin a new monastic organization. These religious communities not only show us an architecture ruled by a monastic life, but also reveals some impressive hydraulic systems occasionally reflected in valuable drawings. From the first graphic document of Saint-Gall abbey, until the parchment of the Corb River (exclusively photographed at the scriptorium of Vallbona monastery), this work demonstrates that graphic representation of water supply systems has played a very important role throughout time. Thanks to these graphic documents we can currently know about other important aspects such as irrigation rights, water supply channels, hydraulic systems to pump water, etc. All these elements have become the only witnesses of an invisible architecture located under the ground, which has almost disappeared nowadays.Date
2016-02-23Type
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oai:hispana.mcu.es:18765745WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment. 2015, 200: 377-387. doi:10.2495/WS150321
1746-448X (Print)
1743-3541 (Online)
http://hdl.handle.net/10045/53343
10.2495/WS150321
http://hispana.mcu.es/es/registros/registro.cmd?tipoRegistro=MTD&idBib=18765745