Methodology for the study of the walls of the Patio de Santo Tomás, University of Alcalá

摘要

The main courtyard of the University of Alcalá, Patio de Santo Tomas, has un-dergone many transformations and changes of use since it was built in the 16th century. During the restoration works of the building, the wall renderings were removed, showing the building materials of the walls. It was observed that the historical building works were overlapped on the same plane of the wall. This exceptional event allowed a direct study of the historical evolution occurred on the building, through an analysis of the materials and the construction techniques.udThe aims of the study were: first, finding out the shape and size, building techniques and ma-terials of the original Patio; second, identifying the main elements and construction techniques of the different historical stages of the building; and third, surveying the successive building works undertaken in the building over the past five centuries. In order to achieve these goals, the methodology used combined historic and graphic documentation, stratigraphy, morphology and metric analysis and materials characterization.