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Survey and Characterisation of Founder’s Chapel Pathologies of the Santa Maria da Vitoria Monastery, Batalha
| Resumo: | The Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória, also known as the Monastery of Batalha, is one of the most beautiful examples of Portuguese and European architecture and has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage list. The construction took over 150 years, across various phases, and composed by several styles namely: gothic, Manuelino and some renaissance details. A number of changes were made to the initial project, resulting in a vast monastic complex that today includes a church, two cloisters with annexed dependencies and two royal pantheons, the Founder’s Chapel and the Unfinished Chapels. The built heritage, under the ambient conditions, even with a proper maintenance can have pathologies and defects due to deterioration of materials, repeated loading lack and exceptional events. Within this process, inspection and diagnosis techniques, play a major role, providing information and allowing the definition of adequate remedial measures. To start this procedure in the Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória the Founder’s Chapel was selected fora detailed survey and to be subjected to a non-destructive tests, using thermography and ultrasonic testing, preliminary diagnosis with pathology mapping and laser scanning. |
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| Autores principais: | Vazão, Flávio |
| Outros Autores: | Gaspar, Florindo; Rodrigues, Hugo |
| Assunto: | Heritage Batalha Monastery Survey Pathologies Non-destructive testing |
| Ano: | 2017 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | capítulo de livro |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso restrito |
| Instituição associada: | Instituto Politécnico de Leiria |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | IC-online |
| Resumo: | The Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória, also known as the Monastery of Batalha, is one of the most beautiful examples of Portuguese and European architecture and has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage list. The construction took over 150 years, across various phases, and composed by several styles namely: gothic, Manuelino and some renaissance details. A number of changes were made to the initial project, resulting in a vast monastic complex that today includes a church, two cloisters with annexed dependencies and two royal pantheons, the Founder’s Chapel and the Unfinished Chapels. The built heritage, under the ambient conditions, even with a proper maintenance can have pathologies and defects due to deterioration of materials, repeated loading lack and exceptional events. Within this process, inspection and diagnosis techniques, play a major role, providing information and allowing the definition of adequate remedial measures. To start this procedure in the Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória the Founder’s Chapel was selected fora detailed survey and to be subjected to a non-destructive tests, using thermography and ultrasonic testing, preliminary diagnosis with pathology mapping and laser scanning. |
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