Restoration of the Brigadier López’s House. Santa Fe, Argentina

Abstract

In the intersectoral action between the provincial
state, the public university and the private
company a “virtuous triangle” is consolidated,
in which specificities of each of the parties are
complemented. The purpose of this union, as
referred in this article, is to perform the best
and most careful restoration of an emblematic
adobe construction. During said process, the
university provided its knowledge to determine
the structural integrity of the house, the state
drew up a contract sheet which included both the
structural consolidation of the building and its put
in value, and then during the work -in dialogue
with the executing company- the best way to
operate was analysed based on the materials’
verification. Tests were carried out to the existent
earth in the building and to the raw material being
incorporated, and a corroboration of existing
similarity between the original and new executions
were made, attending to suitable dosages and
resistances according to the used techniques.
Given the little documented local experience
in this type of interventions, an important
antecedent was set, from which experience can be
accumulated in order to replicate the generated
knowledge in further works.