Description:
The restored public buildings related to local preindustrial activities belong to the village of Ademuz and its hamlet Sesga. The previous research of this type of buildings has taken several years and has been published in a book called Homo faber. These vernacular buildings are outstanding because they reflect the local former life, represent a sign of identity and possess the collective memory of these rural areas. The recovering of some of these neglected buildings has arrived in time for the conservation both of the building and its content, as it happens in the school, the bread oven, the barber’s shop, the winepress and the tile kiln at Sesga. Although solving important structural problems, roof leaks and dampness, conservation works done here are invisible till the point that many people think that the buildings have not been restored, but miraculously conserved. In other buildings partly ruined, recovering the abandoned buildings has also been possible, like the tile kiln in Ademuz. In the case of the gypsum kilns, the fountain, the drinking-trough, the laundry or the scouring pool, the conservation works have tried to get back correctly its original function, eliminate improper elements and reconstitute its matter, structure and damaged roofs.