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The final intention aims to achieve stabilization, definitively, the fade structure and its sculptural and architectural elements, with the anchors needed the rest of the building structure, to achieve negate the effects caused by earthquakes
Councillors Trading and Tourism in the City of Lorca, Francisco Garcia and Francisco Montiel, this morning presented the project to repair and improve the convent of La Merced, Visitor Center Lorca Taller del Tiempo, who suffered serious damage from the earthquakes of 2011. This property also hosts installations where Lorca Taller del Tiempo, as well as the Visitor Center associated therewith and Planning Department is managed.
The historical significance of the building, its position next to the medieval city wall and the porch of San Antonio, and above all, its conformation as host and information about the tourist visiting Lorca, makes it a unique complex.
The primary purpose of the intervention project, with an investment of 450,000 euros, is to rebuild the wall structures of the facade of the church of the former Convent of Mercy, preventing its collapse and curbing damage to the architectural elements and sculptures that form, as well as repair of various defects in the rest of facades and inside the premises of the Department of Planning.
Likewise, a consolidation of land will be under the foundation of the lower body of the building, consisting of an arcade that has been damaged.
The final intention aims to achieve stabilization, definitively, the fade structure and its sculptural and architectural elements, with the anchors needed the rest of the building structure, to achieve negate the effects caused by earthquakes.
To avoid the problems of differential movements and seats on the facades of the body composed of archery (occupying in his upstairs office Urbanism), intends to consolidate the soil under the foundation with the completion of a micropiling, which gets consolidate the ground and make it more bearing capacity.
As regards the elements of stone, a general manual cleaning of the joints in particular air and water under pressure for subsequent treatment is performed.
An injection at low pressure will be from the highlands of the masonry walls in the body under and on the facades of Lorca Taller del Tiempo, so that gaps and voids that may exist within the wall would clog due to movements suffered in earthquakes.
Subsequently lost with lime mortar joints are filled and likewise sealed with hydrated lime mortar.
On the cover of the old church, in addition to all the above, epoxy resins are consolidated with those cracked fragments of carved stonework, which previously have been cleaned.
In cases in which the loss of material will be important make consider a recess and placement of new material of the same features as existing.
On the walls of factories with stucco will be consolidated through poultices based on ethyl silicate.
As for the outward movement of the entire cover of Lorca Taller del Tiempo, a restoration and consolidation trussed porch anchored to existing concrete inside the facade will be made.
Fiberglass rods that atirantar the pieces sewn by means of epoxy resins, ethyl silicate and lime mortar is used.
Also specific cajeados be made in the parts where it is deemed necessary.
All these actions will be performed by experienced restorer entitled.
To unify the appearance of archery facade, the low walls of modern factory, topped by semicircular windows, for it to be substituted by woodwork are deleted.
Thus, it is intended to achieve a more unified body image, clearly showing the formation of arches
Historical review a landmark building
The last action performed in the Convent of Mercy dates from 2000, when, according to draft municipal architects, Carmen Díez and José Luis Fernández Romero, a complete rehabilitation of the whole occurs to accommodate the offices of the new Management Urbanism.
Part of the complex was used for the management and administration of Lorca Taller del Tiempo, occupying part of the ground floor and basement an interpretation center and receiving visitors.
Access to the Visitor Center Lorca Taller del Tiempo is performed thereafter by the facade of the convent church, facing the vast expanse of parking.
Because of the severe damage during earthquakes, conducted a series of emergency works to curb the damage occurred, the possibility of collapse of facade wall and prevent the collapse of some elements of the facade of the old church convent.
The most significant action was the felling of the cover.
Since then it has been assessing and studying the possibility of restoration of the facade of the building and has likewise valued the works required for the recovery of the building occupied by the Department of Planning, who also suffered various damages caused by earthquakes, such as archery attached to the old church, dominated by firms upper body.
The Convent of Mercy, entitled Santa Olalla, is of medieval origin, and is the first monastic establishment of Lorca.
Father Morote locates the site of the first order in the Castle, hinting that his church was, in all probability, the hermitage of San Clemente.
The order is linked traditionally the Catalan-Aragonese troops therefore not be surprising that the friars reached Jaime Lorca when I go to the city in 1266 to appease the Moorish rebellion.
One of its main functions was the redemption of captives, which fits perfectly with the medieval character of Lorca, Christian outpost in the eastern part of the Moorish kingdom of Granada.
The move to their current situation, by the river, in the vicinity of the old gate of San Ginés unable to be dated with certainty.
The cover of access to the convent church is of Renaissance and was built by Domenico bed of Plasencia, in 1546. In it you can see the badges of the Order of Mercy, Council and Garcia Alcaraz, family he held for some time the patronage of the chapel.
The preserved remains of the church, prior to the processes of rehabilitation and transformation of convent dating to the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century when, after renovations, the chapel of the Virgin of Solitude rises and decorated with Pedro Camacho boxes Happy and Muñoz de Córdoba.
The construction of the cloister began in 1633 by Manuel Valles, and were continued in 1637 by Juan Garzon.
Was structured on two floors of seven columns at each of its sides.
Between 1650 and 1656 it will just build the staircase.
He is credited with authorship of Lorenzo de Mora.
The conclusion of the work is carried out by Miguel de Mora (son of Lorenzo) in 1667. In the late nineteenth century, the cloister was partially transferred to Monclova Castle, seat of the Dukes of the Infantry, in Ecija (Sevilla).
From 1727 the work of a new faculty start, this time raised on pillars (not on columns), carved by Pedro Bravo Morata.
The signing of this lorquino stonemason date the conclusion of the works in 1729. This construction forms, currently, access to the offices of the Department of Planning.
The Convent of Mercy, similar to other male convents of other orders Lorca regular way, desamortizó in 1835. Later it was sold to private individuals.
His state of neglect widespread ruin the whole and the consequent loss of the convent buildings, the church and the remains of the cloister of the seventeenth century.
The rehabilitation work undertaken allowed preserve what still remained standing: the cloister of the eighteenth century inside the building for the Department of Planning and the cover of the church, as access to the Visitor Center Lorca Taller del Tiempo.
It is a Renaissance façade built in 1546 by the stonemason, origin of Biscay, Diego de Plasencia.
The cover consists of a large arch placed between pilasters, supported by high pedestals, holding a plain entablature, molding, finished in a large cornice.
In the middle, the sides of the frieze, gusset shields Merced order, city and García de Alcaraz (then patron of the chancel of the church) family offer.
The arch, slightly flared, has three archivolts resting on their corresponding retropilastras.
The spandrels are decorated with circular medallions subtly curved.
The order used in the pilasters is a composite order.
The entablature, undecorated except for shields, is richly molded, especially the architrave and fascias.
Assembly highlights the quarter round molding that crowns the frieze and above all, the great development of the gorge of the cornice, which generates a great flight to how large overalls.
On the sides of the pillars of the cover a vegetable motifs based on scrolls, leaves and scrolls, with zoomorphic details volley shot where they present animal head is placed.
This element serves as a transition between the outer retropilastra, leaving the framework of the cover, and the rest of the set.
On the cover has a new body or attic, consisting of a classic niche located between pilasters and topped by a triangular pediment.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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