Carquero Arquitectura

Carlos Quevedo Rojas & Carlos Peinado Madueño
Prado del Rey, Spagna
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Carlos Quevedo Rojas (Cádiz, 1980). PhD in Architecture from the Universities of Seville and IUAV di Venezia, with three Masters on Architecture and Heritage, Restoration and Art History from the Universities of Seville, La Sapienza di Roma and Granada respectively. He has been visiting professor at the universities of Seville, IUAV di Venezia, Olavide, Camerino and Oxford Brookes School of Architecture.

His research work has been recognized with the “R. Santos ”and the “Pablo de Olavide” Essay Award. He has been awarded a scholarship to carry out various stays at the universities of Venice, Lima, Delft or Paris. He is a researcher and honorary assistant at the University of Seville and collaborates with the National University of Engineering of Peru. He has participated as a jury in several international architecture competitions and awards. In 2019 he was the winner of the 40under40 Awards, organized by the Chicago Athenaeum and The European Center as one of the best young European architects.

Carlos Peinado Madueño (Malaga, 1980). He developed part of his training and work in different architecture and urban planning studios in Seville and Malaga, collaborating in projects of all kinds throughout the Andalusian geography, from housing developments to activity projects.

He was also part of the multidisciplinary group Arquitectura 4.0, carrying out projects for clients such as Iberdrola or Endesa, and international competitions, and has developed a large part of his work experience as construction manager at the service of the construction company Fernández and Lind Construcciones, in works for new-storey homes and villas, comprehensive renovations or civil works, which contribute to the work of Carquero Arquitectura proximity and constructive reality.

Projects:

Consolidation of the Matrera Castle Keep Tower

This medieval tower has always been a historical landmark due to its strategic position in the latest “Nazari” border. However, it had partially collapsed in 2013, losing part of its imposing volume and putting at risk not only the architectural stability of the rest of the tower, but also its role as a landscape landmark. Therefore, our project was to consolidate such a landscape icon.

With compatibility and authenticity criteria, the intervention looks at structurally consolidating the elements that were at risk, to differentiate the additions from the original structure, avoiding mimetic reconstructions (that our law prohibits), and recovering the volume and tonality that the tower originally had as a landscape icon.

Previous historical, constructive, functional, structural and pathological analyses, as well as the archaeological supervision that has taken place have been important to define the details of the project. New discoveries have appeared during the works that have served to recover part of the interesting history of this monument of cultural interest.

The very limestone that had collapsed was re-used for the buttresses that guarantee its stability and for the reinforcements/protections of the internal degraded cores that had lost their exterior stonework. The top was executed in order to consolidate the slender wall that remained after the collapse and that was running a serious risk of overturning. In its exterior face, the flesh was removed and the original white covering was retained in its interior face as well as an interesting fresco painting of a boat in ochre tonality. All the edges were also rethought from the details of geometric existing geometrical elements, in order to mark its original volume.

In parallel to the practical intervention of movable heritage, its historical value has also been enhanced, facing its original volume using a continuous coating (mortar of lime) similar to the one which originally covered it.

More information on the link: http://www.carquero.com/proyectos/consolidacion-restauracion-del-castillo-matrera-cadiz/

Consolidation and restoration in the area of “Sant Francesc” and “La Pardala” in Morella Castle (Spain)

The general criterion for intervention has been to restore and consolidate the existing masonry, maintaining their ruinous physiognomy, avoiding reinterpretation of the original state.

For the necessary added structural elements, compatible materials such as lime concrete, with stainless steel and glass fiber reinforcing have been used, with tones and textures that integrate with the rest of the historical stratigraphy of the existing and discovered masonry. In the same way, for necessary added functional elements such as carpentry, stainless steel with titanium steam treatment has been used, giving it a finish that integrates with the rest of the intervention.

In the interior of the walls, an important volume from Carlist War period fillings has been removed because it structurally affected the wall. Numerous archaeological remains appeared, and were deposited in the Museum of the Castle of Morella, as well as the finding of three lime ovens, leaving visible medieval rammed-earth. For the collection of rainwater, the main cause of the pathologies caused in the masonry of the Castle, a system of diffuse pavements and pipes has been arranged that direct the waters to a pre-existing outdoor pool.