In
order to attain personal satisfaction and enrichment, through actions that
respect the traditional volumes and building techniques. Rendering at the
same time old and ruined houses with no roof more hygienic and readapting
their compartments so as to show people they can live inside the same space
their acestors lived, in conditions compatible with the modern life conforts.
Showing them popular architecture is more beautiful, is simpler, is more
integrated in the environment and is on top of it all more economical. To
recreate an old house, from its original plant is a compensatory and extremely
rewarding job. It allows us to build the future without despising the promises
left by the past.
Whenever it was possible the plaster covering the existing
"tijolo burro" (very thick and compact brick) was removed and the
wainscotting uncovered so as to be again part of the surrounding architecture.
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We
took a ruined house in the Beja region and transformed it. The first thing
we did was to carefully sort out the symptoms that the old construction
had. Our diagnosis was the following:
The building revealed several different pathologies
in the stuccos and interior woods, due to infiltrations caused by the
ruined covering and humidity rising by capillarity at the level of the
basement and groundfloor facings.
Most of the woods of the external frameworks
were rotten as they were exposed to the open air.
The water, sewage, gas and electricity distributuion
systems were obsolete and in bad condition.
As far as the architecture was concerned,
the variety of materials used, showed the different periods in which the
building was renovated.
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