Rehabilitation of a historic building in Egypt: King Farouk Rest House

摘要

Given that historic structures receive special attention worldwide, their preservation and restoration is essential. In this case, the Royal Rest House of King Farouk required both strengthening to the substructure and superstructure using materials compatible with the building's historic nature. The stability of the substructure was evaluated using geometric information obtained via Google Earth Pro, and was performed using Geo5 and numerical modelling using Midas GTS, while the cracking of the superstructure was visually assessed with cracks width and depth being measured to categorize and map the building damage and numerically modelled using SAP after building a BIM using Revit to visualize the rest house in its desired final state. Based on the results of the investigation, rehabilitation and preservation techniques are proposed in form of reinforcing the substructure using stone columns and grouting the superstructure cracks to enhance the building stability and it load carrying capacity.