When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: mexican adobe homes

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Viga (architecture) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viga_(architecture)

    Vigas are wooden beams used in the traditional adobe architecture of the American Southwest, especially in New Mexico.In this type of construction, the vigas are the main structural members carrying the weight of the roof to the load-bearing exterior walls.

  3. Adobe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe

    Adobe wall (detail) in Bahillo, Palencia, Spain Renewal of the surface coating of an adobe wall in Chamisal, New Mexico Adobe walls separate urban gardens in Shiraz, Iran. Adobe (/ ə ˈ d oʊ b i / ⓘ ə-DOH-bee; [1] Spanish pronunciation:) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. Adobe is Spanish for mudbrick.

  4. La Casa Primera de Rancho San José - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Casa_Primera_de_Rancho...

    After receiving the land grant, Palomares built his initial adobe homestead in 1837 on land that is now part of Pomona. The simple five-room adobe, which is known as the Casa Primera, was the first home in the Pomona Valley and was built in the Mexican adobe style with thick walls made of adobe brick.

  5. Architecture of Mexico - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Mexico

    The concrete block houses are built in a similar manner to some adobe homes in how blocks of adobe are placed with a person's hand. The concrete block residences are designed to allow the homes to be constructed easily and still maintained the opportunity to use thermal mass as a cooling strategy - similar to vernacular strategies in dry ...

  6. Jacal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacal

    The jacal (/ h ə ˈ k ɑː l /; Mexican Spanish from Nahuatl xacalli contraction of xamitl calli; literally "hut") is an adobe-style housing structure historically found throughout parts of the Southwestern United States and Mexico. [1]

  7. De Vargas Street House - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Vargas_Street_House

    The De Vargas Street House is a two-story adobe building; the first floor is original and the second floor was reconstructed based on the original in the 1920s. Most of the house is constructed from adobe brick, which was a Spanish colonial technology, while a few lower wall sections are puddled adobe characteristic of pre-Spanish pueblo buildings.

  8. Pueblo Revival architecture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblo_Revival_architecture

    detail of adobe architecture, La Fonda, Santa Fe, NM View of the La Fonda hotel from the southwest, built in 1922 and remodeled in 1929 The regional architecture from which the Pueblo style draws its inspiration is primarily found in New Mexico and Arizona, but also Colorado.

  9. Centinela Adobe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centinela_Adobe

    The Adobe was the seat of the 25,000-acre (100 km 2) Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela, a Mexican Alta California-era land grant partitioned from the Spanish Las Californias era Rancho Sausal Redondo centered around the Centinela Springs. The Centinela Adobe, which is the Centinela Valley's oldest residence, was built by Ygnacio Machado in 1834.