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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