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- Title
DIGITAL MODELS APPLIED TO THE TYPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE OLIVE OIL MILLS WITH BEAM AND WEIGHT PRESSES IN ÉCIJA.
- Authors
Moya-Muñoz, Jorge; Pinto-Puerto, Francisco
- Abstract
For centuries, mills with beam and weight presses have been the production units used in the town of Écija to obtain oil. The intensification of olive tree cultivation in the 18th century increased the proliferation of these constructions throughout the town, which at one point was home to no less than 286 mills of this type. However, the mid-20th century events surrounding the local olive groves caused many of them to fall into disuse. Nowadays, the mills present an advanced state of decay, to the extent that many of them have disappeared partly or completely. In view of the functional nature of these production units and the short space of time in which they were built, the authors decided to conduct a typological study aimed at identifying any common patterns in their design. The geometric and proportional relationships between their constituent parts, obtained using digital information models (Geographic Information System (GIS), 3D point clouds and databases), enabled us to determine standard structures based on ranges of deduced values. The repetition of these patterns suggested that it would be useful to create a graphical database using a parameterised HBIM (Historic Building Information Modelling), which in turn facilitates the introduction of attributes associated with these mills from a dynamic database; this process would therefore favour interoperability in heritage management as a response to the critical situation of the mills today. At the same time, the correspondence in the proportionality relationships between the mills analysed typologically and the model of a 16th-century mill, suggests that 18th-century mills were adapted to patterns developed in older presses.
- Subjects
POINT cloud; OLIVE oil mills; OLIVE oil analysis; BUILDING information modeling; GEOGRAPHIC information systems; HISTORIC buildings
- Publication
Virtual Archaeology Review, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 26, p116
- ISSN
1989-9947
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4995/var.2022.15077