This intensive one week course is suited for apprentices, architecture students and young practitioners who have worked previously on a building site and are used with traditional tools and materials. This is also suited for people wishing to go into crafts business, start a career in conservation and completing the hands on requirements for NVQ type of qualifications. Cost: £495/person which includes tuition fees, accommodation for 7 days, 3 meals a day, protection equipment, tools and materials and local trips.
Main elements of the course
plastering techniques based on traditional materials
brick work
stone masonry
problem solving attitude
drawing lessons
field trips
PROGRAMME
1 June 2009, Monday
08.00 - 13.00 (Henry Rumbold, MBE & Aura Woodward)
- Introduction to INTBAU
- Health and Safety Rules
- Walking tour of the fortified church and the village of Archita
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 - 18.00
- Back to basics: Tools, Materials, Lime Mortar, Mixing lime mortar, Porcelanic additives, Cutting defective mortar for face joints, stone & brick.
2 June 2009, Tuesday
08.00 - 13.00 (Henry Rumbold, MBE)
Village Lecture: Archita
Village structure / planning
Conservation: study cases from England and Romania
Saxon house: foundation, walls, roof
Practical work: cutting out defective mortar from face joints, stone and brick work
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 - 18.00
Practical work: stone & brick work
Grouting, tamping & lime pointing
Video: work carried out in England
Questions and answers
3 June 2009, Wednesday
08.00 - 13.00 (Henry Rumbold, MBE)
Lecture: Principles of shoring and propping
Taking down section of walls of stone and brickwork. The correct procedure as carried out in the Preservation of Ancient Monuments and Rebuilding
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 - 18.00
Rebuilding sections of walls
Tamping, dubbing out for plaster, lime pointing
4 June 2009, Thursday
08.00 - 13.00 (Henry Rumbold, MBE)
Making good plaster
Practical: lime plaster
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 - 18.00
Practical: lime plaster
5 June 2009, Friday
08.00 - 13.00 (Henry Rumbold, MBE & Aura Woodward)
Lecture and practical: Working on historic buildings in the UNESCO Heritage City of Sighisoara
Lecture and practical: fact finding area, conservation & restoration
Study: buildings, foundations, structure (walls), roof. Fractures & repairs.
Drawing
Specification & Method & Risk assessment
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 - 18.00
Practical work in conservation and restoration
6 June 2009, Saturday
08.00 - 13.00 (Henry Rumbold, MBE & Aura Woodward)
Visit the village of Cloasterf
Structural repair of Saxon houses
Lecturing during a walk through the village and analysing different types of work undertaken over the last 7 years (some of which was supervised by Henry Rumbold): focus on structural repair, stonework, brickwork and plaster repair
13.00 - 14.00 PICNIK LUNCH in the village of Viscri (UNESCO Heritage site)
Village walk
18.00 - 19.00 Closing reception at the medieval Church of Archita and the inauguration of the exhibition of the best drawings of the week
19.00 - 21.00 Dinner
7 June 2009, Sunday
Participants return home
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