Abstract
That the preservation of twentieth concrete heritage is an area scantly explored can be attributed to a lack of appreciation for such a young material. In most cases conservation is broached from a technical perspective with little regard for heritage value. Ongoing assessment of the condition of structures is the primary strategy to minimise such misguided action. This study involved characterising the condition of the concrete in a number of singular elements forming part of the Eduardo Torroja Institute for Construction Science headquarters at Madrid, Spain, a modernist compound listed by the city of Madrid as a protected asset. The in situ findings using non-destructive and laboratory techniques revealed the core concrete to be in good condition. The surface material, however, exhibits signs of durability issues calling for conservation treatments and techniques compatible with the preservation of the integrity and authenticity of this young heritage material.
Highlights
That the preservation of twentieth concrete heritage is an area scantly explored can be attributed to a lack of appreciation for such a young material
In 1824 Joseph Aspdin patented a process for making portland cement (PC), whilst François Coignet used precast structural concrete for the first time in 1852 and S.T
The former was studied with a field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) fitted with a Bruker 20-kV XFlash Detector 5030 energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (EDX)
Summary
That the preservation of twentieth concrete heritage is an area scantly explored can be attributed to a lack of appreciation for such a young material. En este estudio se caracterizó estado del hormigón en una serie de elementos singulares que forman parte de la sede modernista del Instituto Eduardo Torroja de Ciencias de la Construcción en Madrid, España, catalogado por la ciudad de Madrid como un bien de interés cultural. French architects Auguste and Gustave Perret were often contemporarily credited for pointing the way to the modern use of concrete [7] It was not until the twentieth century, that it came to be regarded as a ‘noble’ material, used by modernist, brutalist and expressionist architects [5, 8, 9] and sculptors [10]. It has since become the predominant construction material [3, 12]
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