Its restoration

Stability and light: principal stakes of a restoration between safeguarding and development.

If the installation of the ties and the repair of the roof saved the vault of the ruin, this one always presents alarming disorders. To consolidate the building, to make him find a new stability: such is the first urgency to which the restoration will have to answer, but the project does not stop there.

Today, most of bays is filled; others lost their rubble filling. The building in this state is equipped with a certain romantic majesty but its unbalanced interior lighting invites to conceive a true project on bays: choice of material according to the quality of the light seeks and the new uses which remain to be defined, contemporary interventions or restitution of the stained glasses starting from the elements of origin discovered in the fillings. These questions seem to announce an enthralling work as the examples of restoration presented testify some below.

Equipped with a medieval inheritance quite as rich that that of France, Spain knows since many years of the restoration campaigns marrying the respect of old marvelously and integration with new. The harmony and the purity which emerge some could be used as example for the rehabilitation of the vault of the priory of Bray.L'étude préalable à la consolidation de la chapelle

 

In front of the urgency definitively to consolidate this head of work of the radiant Gothic architecture, it was decided to engage a complement of studies relating to the restoration of the vaults. In dialogue with a engineering and design department specialized, a precise program was defined in order to make vault an at the same time sure and worthy place. It is then envisaged to restore the entirety of the vaults of which a part will have to be supported, then dismounted after set up of a provisional structure of scaffolding out of tubes. Thanks to this structure which will thus be used at the same time as proping, of, and "suspended ceiling" working platform of safety, the vault could already be used during the duration of the work which should proceed of at the end of 2004 with the autumn 2005. Once the restored vaults, their maintenance will be ensured by ties modern, more discrete and placed better. At the same time, the additional vault, whose walls, deprived of buttresses, tend to deviate, will be consolidated. The program of this first countryside will also include/understand the restoration of part of broken bays or mouthfuls whose restoration could be the subject of a sponsorship.

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here the detail of the file of restoration

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