In the central gardens of Paseo de la Alameda , at number 39, are the two chimneys of the former Spanish Alcohol Union.
Parts of a Chimney
The chimneys consist of three distinct parts: Base or Pedestal, Reed, Shaft or Tube and Crown, Coronation, Capital or Finish.
Description of the Chimney
It is an isolated chimney house, the remains of an old industrial building, built – because it emerges from the chimney typology, with a rectangular base and octagonal fired tile shaft – in the decade 1890-1900. Fired tile is used as the basic material, which is a good thermal insulator. The height and section decrease from the base to the top, consisting of its function in causing a depression or draft between the inlet and exit to establish a current of air, contributing this shot to combustion. The inner section decreases as well, in order to conserve an updraft to overcome the currents of the cold air masses. Its construction obeys the use of steam from the factory.
These industrial chimneys were a basic element of industrial facilities that generated strength in industry from steam, using the experiences of the types of chimneys so typical of the s. XIX and early s. XX. This construction has been isolated from the accessory constructions that should accompany it in the production process, thus being decontextualized.
Its factories are made of baked tile and consist of a quadrangular base topped by a cornice with denticles that marks the transition line with the trunk, octagonal section and conical in shape; canonical form of these chimneys to prevent the entry of cold air, thus facilitating a current of air by thermal inversion. It is topped with a crown and lantern framed by two tiled mouldings.
The Casa de Rua building, also known as
Casa de Voro el de la Barraca
, corresponds to a small rural building that must have been built in the early twentieth century on an old hut.
It is part of a standardized architectural typology in the world of the orchards of Valencia, whose greatest heritage interest is in its good state of conservation, in its representation of a traditional typology of house of the orchard and in its overall value within the rest of rural buildings that houses the Marxalenes Park.
The Alquería de Canet , located in the Jardins del Real , is a piece of some interest within these architectures spread throughout the city of its old rural area.
The house very close to that type of houses that the bourgeoisie of agrarian origin is built near the city, in a very special enclave, the Riuseñor Vault of orchards very close to the city and located north of the old gardens of the Royal Palace, populated by the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy, which still retains its main houses in this always privileged place.
The house consists of two bodies, a main one, the house itself and a rear annex built around a courtyard. The house itself also includes a small miramar tower lateralized in the second of the bays. In front of the house a porch of some importance marks the image of this.
With a construction period from May 6, 1938 to March 23, 1939, it is the one with the highest capacity of the currently existing ones. Its original access has been modified with the elimination of the ramps and the current access is made by means of a staircase possibly made during the remodeling of the institute in the 70s of the last century. The building consists of 4 vaulted galleries that occupy a rectangle of 13.78 X 33.50, not counting the space occupied by the ramps. The vaults have a diameter of 2.67 m. leaving a space of 1 meter between them. The seat benches have been removed, possibly because it would be used as a warehouse at some point.
Located opposite number 10 Calle Serrería, on the sidewalk, it belonged to a sawmill that later became Bodegas Garrigos.
The Casa de Lluna is one of the historic buildings of rural architecture preserved in the area of the Marxalenes Park. Its current construction dates from the early twentieth century, so it corresponds to a building resulting from the period of reactivation that the Huerta de Valencia experienced at that time after the settlement of a new commercial agriculture.
Its heritage value lies, precisely, in the fact that it paradigmatically represents a model of rural house from a very specific period, in which architectural typologies, construction materials and aesthetic elements borrowed or shared from other types of architecture such as industrial and urban housing are introduced.
This house also presents an added value as it is a building that, according to reliable sources, was built next to a farmhouse whose origin can be traced back to medieval times and whose remains are preserved in the subsoil.
The date of the project January 1938. The shelter consists of two parts. The main one is the body of the two naves in which you can see 7 pillars that mark 6 steps between them, with benches running with wooden screens and a border in blue that draws the meeting of the vaults; The other is the access ramps whose roof is a reinforced slab approximately 1.50 meters thick. On top of this body is the shock damping system composed of two layers of 20 centimeters each, the first of sand and the second formed by a concrete flooring that coincides with the old flooring of the entire courtyard. It retains the machinery of the air renewal system with its manually operated wheel.
The Marxalenes Park highlights farmsteads and industrial buildings linked to transport that have survived to this day.
When designing the park, we wanted to take advantage of the presence of these buildings, integrating them, returning them to their meaning and recovering them for a new use.
Located in the old Turia brewery on Calle Altamira núm. 10 accessory.
In the Marxalenes Park is the Alquería de Barrinto, discovering this farmhouse, recently rehabilitated means impregnating yourself with its history. Each construction element reflects an era, a lifestyle. In its restoration, the traces of each period have been preserved, constituting a tribute to Valencian rural construction.
From the fourteenth to the twenty-first century, the different reforms it has undergone have left their testimonies in it. Constructive elements of value that the last of the interventions carried out has discovered and respected: The restoration of the farmhouse to turn it into the current Joanot Martorell library and into a house-museum that tells its history to visitors.
The current farmhouse is divided into two parts connected to each other by the main room of the mezzanine. In one of them is located the library, with the reading room on the ground floor, multipurpose room on the mezzanine, reading and study room on the upper floor and services and the lagares room in the semi-basement.
The rest of the property is destined to the Reception Center of the Parc de Marxalenes and to different exhibition spaces about the history of the building itself and its characteristics.
Visiting L’Alqueria means immersing yourself in its history.
This silk factory, founded in 1836 by the French businessman Santiago L. Dupuy, is located at c/Assagador dels Monges, núm. 10 and was popularly known as “the Batifora“.
This refuge , and it must be assumed that the other two located in the garden area of Gran Via Marqués del Turia, belong to the vaulted model, with two ramp entrances located at opposite ends of about 9.16 m. long and 2.19 m wide. The floor plan of the building is elongated (22 m. long by 7 m. wide). It has two vaulted rooms of about 3 m. of height with attached benches throughout its perimeter. It is completely buried, below the current level of the road. In 2007 access was gained due to the works on T2 of the metro, the layout of which cut off part of one of the entrance ramps. Its state of conservation is good and preserves part of the machinery for the renewal of the air, as well as blue paint on some walls and lines forming a false cutting of ashlars.
