Process of the legalization of cave-house as house = Proceso para la legalización de una casa cueva como vivienda

摘要

25.000 caves and house-caves exist between the provinces of Almería and Granada, most of them need to restore as per estimates of the Councils, taking part of the vernacular architecture of the region. These constructions, which some of them are millennial, are being referent to new projects and architectural models, as consequence of the climate change and the different energetic crisis of these last years. To the cave houses, as to any other building, they are required for their functional adequacy or rehabilitation that meet the basic requirements established by the” LOE”, Ley de Ordenación de la Edificación, to be considered a home. The realization of a study of the fulfillment of all the requirements for a cave house, would be an arduous task, given the diversity and complexity of these constructions, so this study only tries to analyze the process necessary for its legalization from the point of urbanistic as housing. The study has been focused in the province of Almeria, especially in the locality of Cuevas de Almanzora, that does not count with any specific regulation on caves and house-caves and per the estimates of the Council, it counts with approximately 800 units, very few rehabilitated and many pending rehabilitation and legalization as housing.