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Call for papers Revista de Arquitectura N.º 47.
Ways of looking at architectural sustainability + FREE THEME
Deadline for receipt of articles: September 10, 2024
Guidelines for authors: https://dearquitectura.uchile.cl/index.php/RA/about/submissions
Church of Rilán: evidence of prefabrication in the “Chilota School of Architecture” in wood
Abstract
During the last comprehensive restoration of Rilán’s Church carried out by the Foundation, we made a historical finding: all the structural pieces of this church -declared Heritage of Humanity-,were marked with roman numbers. This fact
raises a series of hypotheses, which range from the prefabrication as part of the evolution of the constructive system, to the possibility that this Chiloé School of Carpentry reached an advanced technic that featured specialized groups of carpenters. This document is an invitation to conduct research on the topic, since by verifying our theories, it might allow discovering a new stage in the construction of Chiloé´s temples that, so far has only been based on the concept
of “minga”
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