The Miscegenation of Andean and Spanish Construction Techniques on the Search for an Earthquake-Resistant Architecture in the Viceroyalty of Peru

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to demonstrate the fusion between pre-Hispanic and Spanish construction elements during the 17th and 18th centuries to obtain a seismic-resistant architecture in the Viceroyalty of Peru. To this end, surveys of buildings constructed mainly in the coastal areas have been conducted to describe their main construction characteristics, relating them to ancient documents could attest to an earthquake-resistant evolution, as well as studies of its structural behavior. The list of criteria and analysis of seismic resistance shown in this paper evinces that the master builders developed a structural proposal, because of the experience and careful observation of the damages produced by the earthquakes in the buildings, until materializing a construction procedure with proportions and techniques that had demonstrated their functioning in practice.

KEYWORDS:

• Historical structure
• Peruvian ancient buildings
• seismic-resistant architecture
• traditional construction

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