Abstract: Despite their extraordinary interest, Colombian vaults of the central third of the 20th century have been rarely studied. Some concrete vaulted shells of very specific buildings, such as the ones of the Cartagena baseball stadium, are well-known, but more inconspicuous vaults for the structures of smaller buildings remain undervalued -especially structures for single-family houses,which were then a laboratory for testing all types of variants of lightweight vaults, some of which would be used later in other major constructions. An important mil...
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Architectural engineering