MOLINO DE VIENTO DE LA CASA DEL BARCO

G MEZ JORGE, Carlos: Windmill of La Casa del Barco. Criteria I. School of Technical Architecture. 2008

The House of the Ship was in its origins the house of the mediator of the Finca de la Verdellada, which belonged in the 16th century to the family of Villanueva del Prado, owners in later generations of the Palacio de Nava. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the farms of the Verdellada and Barrio Nuevo were cultivated with grapes, which in the case of Barrio Nuevo was white grapes, hence the primitive name of Vi a Nava, and those of the Verdellada of a grape Green of Portuguese origin called Verdello, hence the name Verdellada. The House of the Boat was the center of the whole green zone.

In the 16th century of the current Casa del Barco there is only the cistern and a series of nearby huts. The first formal building of the house is from the 17th century, when it appears already reflected in the plans of the captain general of the Canary Islands. Around the Casa del Barco, a series of small houses begin to appear throughout the 20th century, which are the current origin of the neighborhood of La Verdellada and of which there are still some buildings.

At the end of the twentieth century, a sailor coemerciant of German origin dwells in the house, who builds a wooden ship in the cork oak, which he used as a place to snack. It was built in order to see the ships that come along the coast to Santa Cruz, a mission that never achieved its objective because of its distance. Since then, and given the originality and the impact of seeing a ship in the glass of an alconoque so far from the sea, people began to frequent the place and was nicknamed as the House of the Boat.

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The first bombs appeared in the US in 1854, developed by Daniel Halladay. They are, in principle, multi-blade rotors coupled to a piston pump n. A few years later, in 1883, Steward Perry made another model with metallic washes on this idea, which became the most widespread windmill of all those that existed.

The multi-blade was a much lighter mill than its predecessors. Have a 3m diameter rotor, with a shovel number that ranged between 18 and 24, connected to a crank-crank mechanism. This moves a vertical axis with alternative movement that reaches a symbol pump located at the base of the tower, designed to accumulate water in a tank. It reached powers of 125 W with wind speeds of 25 km / h and had a capacity to pump 150l / m to 8m high.

This type of mill was mainly used to pump water in remote areas and played an important role in the colonization of the American West.

They were exported to all countries of the world, manufacturing more than 6,000,000 units, of which some 150,000 could still be in operation. The image of the multipala is as common in Australia or in Africa, as in the Spanish east, or on the island of Fuerteventura.