Sustainable Recovery of Architectural Heritage: The Experience of a Worksite School in San Salvador

Silvia Santini, Vittoria Borghese, Mario Micheli and Erick Orellana Paz
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Silvia Santini: Department of Architecture, Roma Tre University, 00153 Rome, Italy
Vittoria Borghese: Department of Architecture, Roma Tre University, 00153 Rome, Italy
Mario Micheli: Department of Humanities, Roma Tre University, 00146 Rome, Italy
Erick Orellana Paz: Ministerio de Cultura de El Salvador, San Salvador CP–1101, El Salvador

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 2, 1-21

Abstract: This paper presents the experience of both interdisciplinary and sustainable implementation of an educational construction site for the recovery of the architectural heritage in Central America. Rey Prendes House is representative of one hundred and forty-five houses made of wood, stamped steel sheet, and deployé that are located in the historical center of San Salvador. Its origin is linked to historical events, such as the strong migration of foreigners to El Salvador in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the presidential decrees that encouraged the reconstruction of the city with anti-seismic materials as a result of the earthquakes of 1873 and 1917. More recently, since 2017, Rey Prendes House has been included in the project funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation. In this paper, the phases of the survey are documented with both materials and degradation analyses, the new design construction with BIM technology for the organization of the educational construction site, the creation of offices and laboratories for restoration and treatments of timber and metal details. Moreover, the study provides a contextual framework with the aim of describing the policies and the projects implemented, highlighting the adopted strategies, the results achieved, and outlining the path followed towards the design solutions for sustainable rehabilitation relating to future use.

Keywords: heritage; timber; educational construction site; HBIM; structure analysis; restoration; San Salvador; lamina deployé; lamina troquelada; CHSS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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