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CONFERCOVAL

DEFINITION OF THE WORK.
The present project has as an object to describe the rehabilitation of façades and covers. Everything this without inner interest regarding distribution, jacks, fissures, break of lintels chargers, oxidation of carrying metallic elements of balconies, etc, intervening it only to structural effects, in those structural elements affected by failures in the carrying structure of the façades and xylophages and/or deteriorated for the course of the time and of the more or less unlucky interventions in the life of the building placed in the streets in the centre of the City of Valencia.
In the present the building has access so many for the st. of Trenc no. 25 acc., and for the st. saint Ferran no. 26. The building belongs to the archdiocese of Valencia. In the ground floor in this last has access to an office of the Popular bank. Archives, etc of the association CONFERCOVAL, are destined to a use of offices, premises, by the rest of floors belonging to the archdiocese OF VALENCIA in their whole. Where Entity is managed about several charitable questions, elders without family, etc without spirit of profit. Of formality of administrative character. In these floors is accessed from the entry of c/ of the Trenc, in ground floor, accessing to the different floors through a scale and an elevator. Product of an intervention of years '76-77. That it substituted the internal structure, as it indicates us the card of municipal archive.
In the several floors they feel local from meeting, offices, etc. In the terrace, transitable, is accessed through a practicable skylight and retractable scale placed on intrados of the cover.
It is necessary to highlight that the building borders in c/ of saint Ferran with a building of finals of XVIII or principles of XIX that in their ground floor was inserted the Rubió Chemist's, of decoration Art-Decó. Of the thirties. By another side persistence is made about the state of the sharecropper who has come off unprotected and who keeps on suffocating about the neighbouring roof and that the waters drive the demolitions and pulverulent mortars towards the canal of waters gathering and that in this moment is in danger of turning. For that this project includes the sanitated one of this sharecropper who will have to be shared with the neighbouring estate.
The last responsibility being from the bordering owners - of agreement in article 86 and ss., of the L.R.A.U. - but that well it is worthwhile to avoid some haphazard and undesirable accident, given the altitude of fall about the passers-by.

THE INTERVENTION CONSISTS IN A CONSOLIDATION AND GENERAL REPAIR OF THE FAÇADES AND THE COVERS.

COMPOSITION OF THE BUILDING.
The floor of the site has form of L, fruit of the aggregation - group of both sites. The building consists of four (4) floors. This unification, probably, is the product of an ancient intervention, how face of both detects façades for the coincidence, more or less. With transient floral motives, between the eclecticism of finals of the 19th century and the insertion of motives already clearly of the floral Modernism. It is well known that the eclecticism as well as the historicism do not linger with the appearance of the Modernism, but, combining with him, still brief a noticeable part of the first years of the 20th century. As it has described us J.J. Sweeney in their work Antoni Gaudí, p 61: "Fleeting but spread these fashion of the decoration finishes it decade of the 19th century and first years of the 20th century that was in a basic way a shoot of the naturalistic Romanticism".

For another side the previous existence of two properties detects the unevenness through scales of few steps, even with "rises and slopes" in short stretches of space, equally, for the no agreement in altitudes of the forged ones that keep on saving themselves. For another side we have been able to locate a study on the zone of interest of the B.I.C. OF THE MARKET carried out by Vicent Corell i Farinós for the Generalitat in 1987 "Project of regulations and urban design of the about the Box, Sants Joans i Mercat Central." That it advances some criteria of intervention.

COMPOSITION OF THE FAÇADES.
Although the criteria of both façades are faces, they can not avoid that they come from different typology, That of the C/ of the Trenc of a craft housing, even of a home - workshop that organizes itself through an axis of symmetry that sorts the emptiness.
Like other of the same way. It is guessed by the counter that shapes the inland of the squares that it was an ancient chemist's. That of c/ of S. Ferran is already inserted in craft one of type C with two axes of emptiness and with many senior façade. Already in the mercantile and commercial zone futile have an ancient perfumery and drugstore, before the current uses. The reunification would be carried out about 1900, frankly inexperienced date. The handrails of superior slam have sat modified with scarce knowledge of the style, since they probably showed a wavy profile.
Here, in the composition of both façades it has disappeared the horizontal ordering, for flats, that they mark the bands. We are in the face of a durandiana ordering of basis of the École de Beaux Arts. For vertical cloths. Little marking in the ends edicles, a powerful moulding cornice and linear elements of finals crooked of being framed with sweetened encounters crows (bands and bass string) and insertion of horizontal dentils of Viennese root Sezessión.

Subject of the handrails, which are from forge, of agreement to the spirit of the style, with floral motives equally, of Parisian root or/and Viennese, that façades are not coincident totally in both.

The down pipes are, equally, from smelting. Today are totally out of service, drowning the ornaments.

Subject of the counter of the Trenc: about a basis of vitrified white counters. Punctually they are inserted in a symmetrical way they are inserted allusions to the products "serums and vaccines" as well as the typical symbology of the snake that wraps the glass. The ornamental borders of living colour that punctually the cloths sort are from special interest. The ground floor finds placated with a brown granite dragged work and outlined with grey polat marble.

The under balconies are from work, not having decorated counters. With structure of metallic profiles highlighted by the corrosion. It is necessary to highlight the simplicity of the composition, solved simply from constructions coming from the Rationalist Academism of the first third of the 19th century. That they have sat intervened and modified from the new aesthetic criteria of the change of century. Transition between the Eclecticism and the Modernism.

The carpentry is from wood. Tripartite. With superior card broadside. Painted in grey soft. With lined in everything size. Probably in he finishes it intervention of the 70'. Compound of large windows with glassed quadroons of formed means and with interior counter window for darkening of the inland. That is, the traditional of this city, to the Catalan.

Significant they are the down pipes of smelting that moves vertically façades in the right end of both. That of S. Ferran collects the waters from the gutter of the cover and casualty for the sharecropper with the Rubió chemist's. The cover is transitable.

Possibly, and for the slope that he possesses it is a matter of a coattail of roof that was reconverted in terrace.
The structure carrying is of factory of solid tile of format Valencian/Catalan of 14 x 28 and variable sizes.
Settled about an ancient basement of stone to avoid it, probably, remounts it, for capillarity, of damp of the subsoil. It highlights in the composition of the entry of St. / S. Ferran to be of being placated of plaster of requirements, type Exoduro, by imitation in stone of the current and/or contemporary country of character. And therefore, totally extemporaneous that their will have to study cleaning and/or reconversion, eliminating previously and substituting for stone dragged work type Sant Vicent dels Horts, Borriol, Ulldecona or face. Zone of the Spanish Popular Bank. Façades Placing a lead in both, to possible being of stone that permit the step of air facilities, with superior record.

COMPOSITIVE JUSTIFICATION OF THE FAÇADE:
Is opted for sustain the compositive criterion of axes in center of emptiness and futile originals. The emptiness is straight lines. The framed ones that the history has bequeathed us. As a matter of fact this building constitutes one rings new of the half capes that they insert itself in a current European contemporary. The art 'Nouveau'. Stranger, to a large extent, in a company with a high degree of artistic conservatism and immobilism.
As a matter of fact, the carpentry is the original ones and preserves the simple glass (no double with chamber of dehydration, climalit type, and current) and they respect the straight lines.

In synthesis, this intervention happens to retrieve the splendour of this anonymous piece. As we see it. Adapting the pre-existent one, without eliminating not even less than those pathologies. Adapting the ground floors with the superior bodies, without eliminating them, through the composition and morph typological rereading of the façades.

The boards of the balconies will be renewed and will be sanitated and will recompose structurally and will repair the under balconies, the squares are kept vertical they are restored and/or they substitute the damaged counter. They will be eliminated in c/ saint Ferran the revoque of mortar of lime, the fissures and jacks that turn up will be sewn and overall layer of lime and painted cement will be recomposed with a mortar. They will be pickled and they will sanitate the locksmith of balconies. They will be banking to fulfil the P.G.O.U. that it imposes an altitude of 1 '10 m. in a minimalist way, with a simple plate punctually salary in the current handrail.
A handrail of requirements wood will be able to be placed.

All the floral motives will recover through the one buttered up, creation of moulds of fibre of glass or face. Being able to re-insert in the cloths, etc. In our case, we will consult in the estate about the feasibility of reworking or substituting the carpentry of wood with the ancient cadences, but that give robustness to the mullions, to the assets won in altitude and the ones squared since the glass is not that of 3 m/m but we need to improve improving the conditions of insulation that requires a current construction.

The best legacy that we give to the company -in its civic vital space- is the sostenibility of their tradition updated as an appointment to continuity and improvement.

The element, more extemporaneous, is the about elevation of the one banked of the handrails, for regulations that we have decided to add a handrail for him of the same wood than the carpentry of large windows.

We will proceed to the one dried up of the walls through the installation of a system active of electron - osmoses - foresis. Cleaning, rejoined and antigraffiti treatment of their stone. Plumbed of the mullions of the futile ones. The carpentry will be for randa of vertical cut that he possesses the composition of axes to stress the vertical character.

The gathering of waters will continue keeping hidden after the cornice. This will recover with the wavy cadence that characterized it in its origin and that the pictures of period indicate us.
It will be putting in the mouth on down pipes of cooking oxidation glazed to avoid their with darkening or grown green again.
The balconies in its trod on extrados will be waterproofed and will place pieces of suitable finish of stoneware or face.

The terraces will be raised since, collapses, present strong pathologies as leaks etc degradation of temporary "tricks" through SIKA-TOP, self protected waterproofing, totally you reject, etc,

The carrying structure is from walls of burden in façade and sharecroppers. The forged ones resign themselves for perpendicular small beams of wood to and among beams façade of revoltones.

Will be proceeded to sanitating and repairing the sharecropper with the Rubió chemist's, even the repair of the gutter to avoid the fall on their public way. Logical solution of sufficient diameter for the gathering of rains of the terraces, today totally incapable of assuming the diet of rains, will be arbitrated for insertion of the sheets that their dimensions, moving the problem to other points, have reduced.