9778
Accession Number
35190
Title Of Article Chaper
Intervencion y Consolidacion del Segundo Recinto Amurallado del Castillo de Biar = Consolidation and action taken on the second walled area of Biar castle
Title Of Journal Book
Arche: Publicacion del Instituto Universitario de Restaruacion del Patrimonio de la Universitat Politecnica de Valencia = Arche: The Journal of the Heritage Conservation Institute of the Polytechnical University of Valencia
Issue
44291
Pages
427-438
Collation
12 p. : ills.
Reference Bibliography
Includes bibliographic references
ISSN
1887-3960
Language Of Text
Spanish
Language Of Summary
English;Spanish
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
The project, arranged as a competition, was drawn up at the request of the Ministry of Culture by the PAISAR Landscape and Rural Architecture Research Group of the IRP of the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, with the aim of carrying out consolidation and restoration work. The persons in charge of these were Professors Miguel del Rey, Antonio Gallud, Carlos Campos and Ignacio Fuster. The Castle is M.H.A.N.-listed as of 3/06/1931 and protected by the Decree dated 22nd April 1949 and Law 16/1985 on Spanish Historical heritage. The project proposes working on the sections of wall and towers in the upper area, in view of the generally ruinous state in which these are found and the danger involved for visitors to the monument. The architectural action sets out to stabilize the fabrics, using appropriate materials and techniques for consolidating rammed earth walls and formwork-enclosed masonry. The intention is also to highlight the architecture and the building process that this walled area has been through. It furthermore seeks to facilitate the understanding of the monument from different scales; from the inside, seeking a historical construal of the different stages in building the actual castle from the 11th to the 16th century; whilst keeping its later volume from the outside, enabling the historical profile of the castle to be seen from a distance. The project has succeeded in learning, identifying and analyzing the nature of its fabrics and restoring the early elements forming the 12th century Islamic enclosure, the different levels in the extension of the walls until the greatest height of the works was reached in the 15th or 16th centuries. It has also revealed the original floor plan, the earlier non-existence of the corner towers and the successive incorporation of these in the extensions and transformations of the castle, then in the Christian age. It manages to stress the value of all these aspects and historical stages as part of a didactic and logical project within the discipline of contemporary architectural restoration.
Keywords
castle;restoration;consolidation;heritage;rammed;earth;wall;masonry;formwork;architecture;Islamic;defensive;profile;landscape;history
pub_id
9778