Abstract
The Pavilhão Mourisco, designed in Moorish revival, is the icon of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Listed in 1981 as National Heritage, the building nowadays holds the foundation’s historical collections and makes room for some administrative personnel. The building is subject to severe wind conditions, acid rain and pollution, which all accelerate the deterioration rate of the building’s external elements. The Department of Historical Heritage at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz has been developing emergency actions for safeguarding the building, but rainwater infiltration is a recurring issue. In order to develop an accurate plan to reverse this hazard, an analysis of the pathologies in place and of the department archives had to be carried out, as well the testing of the previous waterproofing solutions for that area. After that, the department developed a restoration project in order to restore the waterproofing system for the terraces, involving work on the external elements including decorative mortars, ceramic tiles and copper drip edges. The last physical intervention had the objective of stopping the deterioration processes and their consequences in order to preserve the building and the institution’s collections.
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Named after Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), French chemist and microbiologist, renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination.
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Fiocruz has offices in Rio de Janeiro, in five other Brazilian capitals (Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Recife, Manaus, and Curitiba), and in Maputo, Mozambique’s capital.
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The Brazilian public health system.
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Architects, historians, conservators, and engineers.
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Pavilhão para Estudo da Peste (also known as Clock Pavilion, 1904–1905), Cavalariça (the Mews, 1904–1905), and the Pavilhão Quinino (for the production of the Quinine, 1919–1921).
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Built between 1238 and 1492, served as a palace, citadel, and fortress.
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Iphan is the Brazil’s Institute for Historic and Artistic Heritage.
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Both the fourth and sixth floors are technical pavements and have low-rise ceilings.
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Diário Oficial da União is the Brazilian Official Journal, published since 1862.
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Note that the fourth floor is a technical one, with a low-rise ceiling (1.8 m high).
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They are still the original ones, made of copper.
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de Aguiar, B.C., Martire, G.E. (2016). Pathology Analysis and Intervention at the Pavilhão Mourisco Roof Terraces—Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In: Delgado, J. (eds) Case Studies of Building Pathology in Cultural Heritage. Building Pathology and Rehabilitation, vol 7. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0639-5_2
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