Morella Castle Renewal, Carquero Arquitectura Building, Sant Francesc, Historic Spanish Architecture Photos
Morella Castle Building, Castellón
29 August 2021
Design: Carquero Arquitectura
Location: Morella, province of Castellón, Valencian Community, eastern Spain
Consolidation and restoration in the area of ?Sant Francesc? and ?La Pardala? in Morella Castle .

Photos by Joan Roig
Morella Castle restoration in Castellón
The general criterion for intervention has been to restore and consolidate the existing masonry, maintaining their ruinous physiognomy, mainly in their crowns, hollows and surfaces, avoiding reinterpretation of the original state.

For the necessary added structural elements, have been used compatible materials such as lime concrete, with stainless steel and glass fibre reinforcing, with tones and textures that integrate with the rest of the interesting historical stratigraphy of the existing and discovered masonry. In the same way, for the necessary added functional elements such as carpentry, it has been used stainless steel with titanium steam treatment, giving it a finish that integrates with the rest of the intervention.
In the area of the loopholed wall, about 70 meters long and about 14 meters high, the main work has been focused on the structural consolidation, being at risk of collapse, as well as the cleaning and restoration. Outside the walls, four buttresses have been placed, reinforcing the foundation, recovering the exported land and sealin...