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The exposed beam-ends projecting from the outside of the wall are a defining characteristic of Pueblo architecture and of Spanish Colonial architecture in New Mexico, often replicated in modern Pueblo Revival architecture. Usually the vigas are simply peeled logs with a minimum of woodworking.
The viga beams supporting the roof were cut between 1850 and 1859, based on core samples. [1] The original house consisted of eight rooms with additional rooms added at later dates. The large sala room served as a multi-purpose salon or living room. It was designed for cross-ventilation with transom windows and double doorways.
Common features of the Pueblo Revival style include projecting wooden roof beams or vigas, which sometimes serve no structural purpose, "corbels", curved—often stylized—beam supports and latillas, which are peeled branches or strips of wood laid across the tops of vigas to create a foundation (usually supporting dirt or clay) for a roof.
A hammer-beam is a form of timber roof truss, allowing a hammerbeam roof to span greater than the length of any individual piece of timber.In place of a normal tie beam spanning the entire width of the roof, short beams – the hammer beams – are supported by curved braces from the wall, and hammer posts or arch-braces are built on top to support the rafters and typically a collar beam.
Pueblo architecture refers to the traditional architecture of the Pueblo people in what is now the Southwestern United States, especially New Mexico. Many of the same building techniques were later adapted by the Hispanos of New Mexico into the Territorial Style .
In 1629 Father Juan Ramírez began construction of the mission, using enslaved Acoma and craftsmen. Materials for the construction were hauled up the steep trails on the sides of the mesa, and the viga beams were transported some 40 miles (64 km) from Mount Taylor, the nearest source for such timbers.
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Viga may refer to: Viga, Catanduanes, Philippines; Viga (river), Russia; Viga (architecture), a wooden beam characteristic of adobe buildings of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico; La Viga metro station, in Mexico City, Mexico; La Viga (Mexico City Metrobús), a BRT station in Mexico City