The Catalan vault or walled vault (in Catalan Catalan volta) is a technical of traditional Catalan construction. Consists to cover the tank enclosure with a roof of bricks placed on the flat, ie the face surface are greater than the length or rope and width or brick blight instead than by any of the other faces thick. This technique, if the enclosure to cover was not too wide or masons were not clever enough, allowed to build to a certain speed and without using formwork , a fact that among other reasons for its wide dissemination and use. With the Catalan vault was covered by a single light the roof of the ground floor the farmhouses and urban construction popular as' cos houses ", etc. Since the nineteenth century applied to the factories and warehouses or noble buildings of extensions of the time of industrialization as of Eixample Barcelona Cerdá .
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