SINALOENSE CONSTRUCTIVE TRADITION IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION. CASE: IMALA TOWN

Abstract

The knowledge of the construction systems of rural housing in the municipalities of ce
ntral Sinaloa leads to a knowledge of how the inhabitants of this transitional territory between
Mesoamerica solved their structural housing needs, Aridoamerica and Oasisamerica going back
to an intercultural past of Acaxes, Xiximes in Imala in the Western Mother Mountains in the
municipalities of Culiacán and Cosalá and Tahúes in the municipality of Navolato that ends in
the Gulf of California, its constructive traditions ancestral habitability vernacular by its vast
knowledge of the environment and regional materials at the foot of the mountain range as amapa
trees, mauto, blackberry, brasil, ebony, white rod, carrizo and huanacaxtle in the valley
(Rzedowski,www.maph49.galeon.com/biodiv1/rendol.htm,), that facilitated the construction of
walls made of mud, rod with mud, structures, and roofs of rod, carrizo and zacate that are
sometimes more associated with native cultures of the North Southwest than with central Mexico
that mixed with systems Constructions such as tile, brick, beams profiled with axe, cornices,
gabled ceilings, brought by the Europeans produced non-monumental rooms that filled the locker
with a habitability of the nineteenth century to protect themselves from the climate and that in
this early twentieth century for the next twenty or thirty years these traditional construction
systems are about to extinction in many villages of Sinaloa and therefore in the northwest of
Mexico. The methodology was to locate the village at the northwest level and its tribes,
introduction to its history, photographing the constructive typology of rural dwellings with
vernacular construction systems made with materials from the region involving the use of land in
walls, wood in roofs and traditional construction systems such as tile, brick and stone in addition
to the hybrids that result among them, highlight those that are already endangered and have
replaced them with more modern material construction systems such as the reinforced concrete
slab, block walls, steel guards and glass window.