RT Journal Article
T1 Preservation strategies for avoidance of salt crystallisation in El Paular Monastery cloister, Madrid, Spain
A1 López Arce, Paula
A1 Fort González, Rafael
A1 Gómez Heras, Miguel
A1 Pérez-Monserrat, Elena Mercedes
A1 Varas Muriel, María Josefa
AB El Paular Monastery (eleventh century) is one of the most important Carthusian monasteries in Spain and is highly affected by crystallisation of Mg-sulphates, together with chlorides and nitrates. Urgent remediation of the decay process is needed to guarantee the stability of the building materials from the cloister and to make their hallways suitable for the exhibition of an important collection of seventeenth century paintings. This paper aims to characterise the building materials, salts and their interaction to suggest preservation strategies to minimise the impact of salts both in the short and the long term. These strategies include architectural solutions (such as a ventilation system to avoid increasing dampness and hence the dissolution, mobilisation and crystallisation of salts), petrophysical-based solutions (i. e. exploiting the porosity differences between building materials and poultices to maximise salt reduction) and strategies based on the physicochemical behaviour of salts and relative humidity transfer through the stone (to determine the most suitable environmental conditions to prevent crystallisation of the most harmful salt species). This research represents both a practical and experimental exercise that is useful for conservation scientists and restorers involved in the field of preservation of monuments, and for environmental control to avoid salt crystallisation.
PB Springer
SN ISSN: 1866-6280, online ISSN: 1866-6299
YR 2011
FD 2011
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42830
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42830
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
NO Comunidad de Madrid
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid
DS Docta Complutense
RD 12 abr 2025