RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Documentation of traditional housing in Mayangna communities. Bosawás Biosphere Reserve, Nicaragua
A1 Cimadomo, Guido
A1 González Meixuero, Nathalia
A1 Jamauca, José Luis
A1 Castaño Gil, Carlos
A1 Martín Sánchez, Marta
K1 Vivienda vernácula
K1 Arquitectura vernácula- Congresos
AB The Mayangna ethnic community populate the UNESCO Bosawás Biosphere Reserve in the north of Nicaragua, in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. During the volunteer program developed by the School of Architecture at the University of Malaga, Spain. in the summer of 2019, the architecture of a traditional Mayangna house in Santa María (Bonanza municipal term) was documented.Documentation and digital reconstruction of this typology is still inadequate and this is considered a crucial task given that many of these traditional buildings are at risk of disappearing, as the comparison with more recent buildings in Sakalwas (Bonanza) shows. The paper describes, focusing on a typological and construction analysis, the original houses and the domestic culture of this community, characterized by the use of pressed bamboo for the external walls and Suita palm leaves for the roofs. Other characteristics are the lack of internal distribution and the use of piles to elevate the single roof from the ground. A slow process of transformation has been detected, leading to increased environmental costs and less effective solutions for combating tropical climatology and heavy raining periods. Finally, we discuss how the active protection of the Biosphere Reserve should be compatible with the preservation of traditional houses, for a more socially and environmentally sustainable future.
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/19686
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/19686
LA eng
NO Cimadomo, G., González Meixuero, N., Jamauca, J. L., Castaño Gil, C., and Martín Sánchez, M.: DOCUMENTATION OF TRADITIONAL HOUSING IN MAYANGNA COMMUNITIES. BOSAWÁS BIOSPHERE RESERVE, NICARAGUA, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLIV-M-1-2020, 203–209, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIV-M-1-2020-203-2020, 2020
NO Universidad de Málaga. Plan Propio de Investigación y Transferencia
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026