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estantillerías

English translation: galleries/corridors supported on wooden columns/stakes

18:35 Dec 9, 2022
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Architecture / colonial Colombian architecture
Spanish term or phrase: estantillerías
Ambalema se abre camino entre las cordilleras Central y Oriental mientras reposa al lado del río Magdalena, una relación que le brinda alta fertilidad a sus suelos y que le permitió ser epicentro histórico de la producción tabacalera en Colombia durante los siglos XVIII y XIX. Su particular arquitectura, caracterizada por la presencia de estantillerías que evocan un caney, hacen de Ambalema el pueblo de las mil y una columnas, huella y memoria de una bonanza que se volvió humo
pistacho
Colombia
English translation:galleries/corridors supported on wooden columns/stakes
Explanation:
Wooden columns or stakes depending on the quality of the finishing, but I think both terms, columns and stakes, apply.
“Estantillería”, a term unknown in Spain, derives from “estantillo”, a local word for “columna” or “estaca”. These “estantillerías” seem to be a typical element of the architecture in Ambalena (as per your own text, and the reference underneath).

https://riunet.upv.es/bitstream/handle/10251/189622/Nunez - ...
Estrategia multienfoque para el desarrollo ecoturístico del municipio de Ambalema (Tolima, Colombia)
(…)
un nuevo elemento tipológico que caracteriza la arquitectura ambalemuna: la estantillería
(…)
Columnas o estantillos: Para las columnas, tanto de las estantillerías como de los corredores interiores, se han utilizado maderas de la región (cumulá, diomates y guayacán), material usado casi en su estado natural, pues solo se le ha retirado la corteza. De allí que se empleen de forma rolliza y presenten deformaciones naturales, que forman parte del encanto, pues sugieren la imperfección y evidencian el trabajo manual. Existen, sin embargo, columnas de sección cuadrada, aunque en menor medida, utilizadas en inmuebles de mayor importancia, o responden a transformaciones posteriores (cambio de elementos, reparaciones, etc.).

https://shareok.org/bitstream/handle/11244/335064/Mesa_2022_...
CLOUDS OF WOOD: A COLOMBIAN DESIGN-BUILD EXPERIENCE
(…)
A traditional local architecture of houses with a central courtyard, large perimeter corridors, and simple materials (bricks, wooden columns, gabled roofs, and clay tiles) exists in both municipalities. In recent years, and due to its low cost and maintenance, light architecture, built with immunized Caribbean pine wood, has become an essential option for constructing small-format buildings in these municipalities: kiosks, pavilions, bridges, viewpoints, decks, classrooms, and so on.

Unfortunately, I do not know if there is a more specific and compact term to describe this particular element of the post-colonial Colombian architecture.


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Note added at 56 mins (2022-12-09 19:32:23 GMT)
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Here is a picture of it:
https://mincultura.gov.co/ministerio/transparencia-y-acceso-...°%2010%20–%20Anexo%20gráfico.pdf
(…)
Ilustración 5. Cubierta inclinada con galería o estantillería en ampliaciones al interior del predio
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Toni Castano
Spain
Local time: 17:44
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3 +1galleries/corridors supported on wooden columns/stakes
Toni Castano
3shelving / racking
Zorra Renard


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galleries/corridors supported on wooden columns/stakes


Explanation:
Wooden columns or stakes depending on the quality of the finishing, but I think both terms, columns and stakes, apply.
“Estantillería”, a term unknown in Spain, derives from “estantillo”, a local word for “columna” or “estaca”. These “estantillerías” seem to be a typical element of the architecture in Ambalena (as per your own text, and the reference underneath).

https://riunet.upv.es/bitstream/handle/10251/189622/Nunez - ...
Estrategia multienfoque para el desarrollo ecoturístico del municipio de Ambalema (Tolima, Colombia)
(…)
un nuevo elemento tipológico que caracteriza la arquitectura ambalemuna: la estantillería
(…)
Columnas o estantillos: Para las columnas, tanto de las estantillerías como de los corredores interiores, se han utilizado maderas de la región (cumulá, diomates y guayacán), material usado casi en su estado natural, pues solo se le ha retirado la corteza. De allí que se empleen de forma rolliza y presenten deformaciones naturales, que forman parte del encanto, pues sugieren la imperfección y evidencian el trabajo manual. Existen, sin embargo, columnas de sección cuadrada, aunque en menor medida, utilizadas en inmuebles de mayor importancia, o responden a transformaciones posteriores (cambio de elementos, reparaciones, etc.).

https://shareok.org/bitstream/handle/11244/335064/Mesa_2022_...
CLOUDS OF WOOD: A COLOMBIAN DESIGN-BUILD EXPERIENCE
(…)
A traditional local architecture of houses with a central courtyard, large perimeter corridors, and simple materials (bricks, wooden columns, gabled roofs, and clay tiles) exists in both municipalities. In recent years, and due to its low cost and maintenance, light architecture, built with immunized Caribbean pine wood, has become an essential option for constructing small-format buildings in these municipalities: kiosks, pavilions, bridges, viewpoints, decks, classrooms, and so on.

Unfortunately, I do not know if there is a more specific and compact term to describe this particular element of the post-colonial Colombian architecture.


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Note added at 56 mins (2022-12-09 19:32:23 GMT)
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Here is a picture of it:
https://mincultura.gov.co/ministerio/transparencia-y-acceso-...°%2010%20–%20Anexo%20gráfico.pdf
(…)
Ilustración 5. Cubierta inclinada con galería o estantillería en ampliaciones al interior del predio


Toni Castano
Spain
Local time: 17:44
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
thank you

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  neilmac: Interesting...
14 hrs
  -> Hi Neil, yes, interesting, they remind me to some extent of our "soportales".
neutral  Zorra Renard: The picture link doesn't work;
18 hrs
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19 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
shelving / racking


Explanation:
Ambalema meanders between the Central and Eastern mountain ranges while resting next to the Magdalena River, a relationship that provides high fertility rates for its soils which enabled it to be come the historical epicentre of tobacco production in Colombia during the 18th and 19th centuries. Its particular architecture, characterised by the presence of shelving/racking evocative of a caney, make Ambalema the town of a thousand and one columns, a trace and memory of a bonanza that went up in smoke.

Yes, shelving or racking on wooden columns for supporting tree branches for roofing, or whatever else was laid on it, such as tobacco leaves to dry in the sun. .


Zorra Renard
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:44
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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