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Due to the sensitivity of the material or the change of humidity
conditions, special measures have been required consisting in the
following:
• Rebuilding of the losses (produced primarily by rain washing)
using adobe mortars, made with mud from the premises and
a differentiatin criterion in a low level. The rebuilding of these
losses do not only have an aesthetic value, but also a mechanic
one, as they fix the stability of the original elements.
• Controlled hydration of the adobe until the recovery of its opti-
mal volumen. This treatment was made after the wall shoring to
avoid the falling of fragments
• Sealing of cracks that remain after hydration by the injection of
liquid adobe.
• Reintegration of fallen fragments during the period that the
excavation has been open.
• Once it was protected with a net so as to have a better final ad-
justment to the element, the polystirene protection was applied
by injection, with a specific follow-up during the final Works of
the remains.
Also, it has been neccessary the consolidation of concrete zones of
earth fillings and excavation cuts, above all those that were used as a
support for remains placed in superior strata or more modern ones.
In these cases, the most unstable zones of the cut by the sealing of the
crevices and its sewing. In general, all the stratigraphic cuts have been
treated with two coats of ethyl syllicate with a paint brush, so it has a
slight hardness on its contact surface.
In the south section, the adapting to the final conditions of the ar-
chaeological remains placed in the crypt have been made in a grad-
ual or sequenced way. It is important to outline that these struc-
tures were found— since the end of the excavation— outdoors, so
a brusque variation of their conditions could have influenced its
preservation conditions. For this reason, independently of the pres-
ervation treatments that were carried out in the first phase of inter-
vention on the remains, other supplementary measures were made
towards the conditioning of the crypt space, controlling in a simple
way its humidity and ventilation.
Technical file
Promotors:
Real Alcazar Heritage Foundation and Town Hall of
Seville.
Director:
Jacinto Pérez Elliott
Author of Project andWorks Director:
Francisco Reina Fernández-
Trujillo, architect.
Work-executor and coordinator of Safety and Healthd:
Victor
Baztán Cascales, technical architect.
Collaborators in the project and work phase:
Mercedes Sánchez
González, arquitecta; Olga Valderas Grisalvo, architect; José Allona
Rosendo, architect; Tomeu Mora Martínez,architect (inphogra-
phies).
Structures:
Estudio Duarte Asociados.
Instalations:
Dimarq. Design and installation of architectural
frameworks.
Curation and Restoration:
Jesús Serrano (Gares).
Director of archaeological research:
Miguel Ángel Tabales
Rodríguez,Doctor in Archaeology. University of Seville.
Research team:
Alejandro Jiménez Hernández, archaeologist (ar-
chaeological register); Cristina Vargas Lorenzo,archaeologist (infor-
mationmanager); Ana Durán Jerez, archaeologist (register andmate-
rial controller); JesúsGarcíaCarpallo, building engineer(inphography
and 3D representation).
Building firm:
SANOR Restaura S.L.
Budget: 346.285 €
Beginning — end of works:
November 2014 - July 2015
Graphic documentation:
Fernando Alda (final state photos).Estu-
dio Francisco Reina (previous photos, working phase and plannime-
try); Miguel Ángel Tabales (archaeology photographs);
