Learning approach from the invariants of earthen construction in Andalusia, Spain.

The current approach to the conservation of heritage resources in earthen construction, promotes its social valuation and contributes to the recuperation of traditional architectural practices. European Higher Education Area (EHEA) provides the convenient structure to apply locally the architectural conditionings influenced by popular traditions. These particular components offer invariants on construction, materials and design composition off Andalusian vernacular architecture. It is in this context where the opportunity to introduce new subjects of study related to these architectural building techniques and its materials lies. The same thing happens in response to the need of a better relationship between the environment and the important opening to a great diversion of professional specialties. This paper describes the processes to follow during the subject study, in order to start the analysis of the building, including all agents related to the implementation of this architectural technique. Exposed this reflection, it is appropriate to redirect and expand the knowledge of these materials and systems that nowadays has been claimed by contemporary architecture through sustainable social solutions. The existing documentary archaeological and historical sources, and makes the approach easier; however they are insufficient in the context of contemporary architecture. It can be made the same consideration, from a normative point of view, which offers an unsuitable prescriptive content for the use of this material and the associated building systems. So, the situation suites to reflect and to propose actions from learning and teaching area and from all agents on the sector. In this paper, we expose the strategy fallowed by the authors, in order to revalue the earth from the constructive systems to its dissemination as a current material. 1.2 Architecture context of Andalusia Andalusian architectural conditionings, where it can be clearly distinguish two predominant uses of raw earth construction techniques, the domestic residential and the monumental. On residential buildings, housing solutions directly excavated on rock mass with adobe walls in the facade stands out, is been currently resolved with BTC. These buildings can be found mainly in medium and high areas of Alpujarra, between Jaen, Almeria and Granada.