A SHARED HERITAGE: THE “GRAIN SILOS” BETWEEN THE COUNTRYSIDE AND THE CITY

In the 19th century, the production and marketing of wheat generated a radical transformation of the countryside and cities. The need to move and store in good conditions enormous quantities of perishable goods favored the birth of a new type of buildings: silos. The intervention will focus on the historical importance of these structures (rural and urban) and on the regeneration policies that are affecting them. Initially, grain storage buildings were made of wood and were subject to rapid deterioration. In a second phase, to meet the needs of responding to the pressures generated by the storage of grain, the use of other materials such as bricks began to be experimented until the 20th century. to concrete. In this regard, the Modern Movement considered them emblematic examples of the "symbiosis" between form and function, a model to be analyzed and applied in design. The fascination of these structures for architects has persisted over time thanks to the evocative power of the form, generated by the function. The intervention aims to make an approximation to the wheat elevators that contributed to the construction of the rural and urban landscape of the New World and Europe between the 19th and 20th centuries.