Santo Caralampio Shed / Arturo Franco

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Text description provided by the architects. Madrigal de la Vera is known for its hunting, its cattle, its sheep, its microclimate, and its tobacco and pepper drying sheds. All of this generates a vast and complex local culture that squeezes the resources of this land, using ingenuity and small budgets to meet its needs. Fences made of granite boulders, enclosures of discarded bedsprings and wire or simple metal structures, workers' housing, and exposed brick drying sheds with various patterns of brick latticework and ventilation. Unapologetic. Metal-framed sheds built by the town blacksmith using whatever steel profiles were closest at hand. A corollary of vernacular engineering solutions—domestic, informal, relying on local resources, and highly effective makeshift fixes.