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Masonry for beginners 20 - 26 July 2009 INTBAU - Training Centre in Archita

An intensive one week course designed for apprentices, architecture & arts students, young practitioners and individuals interested in traditional restoration with no experience or very limited experience in traditional restoration. Cost £495/person which includes tuition fees, accommodation for 7 days, 3 meals a day, protection equipment, tools, materials and local trips.

Main elements of the course:

  • introduction to traditional tools
  • plastering techniques based on lime and sand
  • brick work
  • problem solving attitude
  • drawing lessons
  • field trips

    PROGRAMME

      20 July 2009, Monday
      08.00 - 13.00 (Henry Rumbold, MBE & Aura Woodward)

    • Introduction to INTBAU
    • Health and Safety Rules
    • Lecture & practical: Tools, Restoration materials, Mixing lime mortar, Flora & fauna
      13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
      14.00 - 18.00
    • Walking tour of the fortified church and the village of Archita

      21 July 2009, Tuesday
      08.00 - 13.00 (Henry Rumbold, MBE)

    • Lecture & practical: lime mortar for stone work, brick work and plaster
    • Lecture & practical: porcelanic additives
    • Lecture & practical: Cutting out defective mortar from stone and brick work
      13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
      14.00 - 18.00
    • Lime pointing and dubbing out stone work and brickwork
    • Video show on work carried out in England and Romania
      17.00 - 18.00: Questions and answers

      22 July 2009, Wednesday
      08.00 - 13.00 (Henry Rumbold, MBE)

    • Lecture: Types of shoring and propping
    • Taking down and rebuilding sections of stone and brickwork in the correct order and procedure
      13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
      14.00 - 18.00
    • Rebuilding sections of stone and brickwork
    • Video: Structural Repair of Saxon Houses with Local Material, Romania

      23 July 2009, Thursday
      08.00 - 13.00 (Henry Rumbold, MBE)

    • Making good plaster
    • Plaster and render in lime mortar, Romanian lime plaster
    • Inspection & checking for faults
    • Practical: Romanian basic lime plaster
      13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
      14.00 - 18.00
    • Practical: lime plaster

      24 July 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
    • Survey for buildings: Foundation, Structure & Roof
    • Drawing
    • Specification
    • Permissions (Romania / England)
      13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
      14.00 - 18.00
    • Practical work in conservation and restoration

      25 July 2009, Saturday
      08.00 - 13.00 (Henry Rumbold, MBE & Aura Woodward)

    • Visit the villages of Saschiz (UNESCO Heritage site) Crit & Mesendorf
    • Lecture: Transylvania & Saxon village life
    • Presentation: Structure of fortified churches and houses / Repair & maintenance
      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

      26 July 2009, Sunday
      Participants return home

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