The restoration of historical monuments

enturies before, had given life to the same reasons, jewels, medallions, moldings ...

Understanding the past

Restoring a historical monument still born of admiration for creative work and construction that is sometimes performed many centuries. Because a book does through time if beyond its useful function residential building, defense, worship, ... magic made art and technology has exceeded its original destination.

The first work of the technicians of the historic buildings is to "grab" the magic of the place in all its dimensions. Apprehension of space, integration site-conditions for initial construction, stories of a building that has sometimes been so many assaults of men and time.

This step requires a historical research, iconographic, photographic ... with local libraries, archives, museums, universities ...

This understanding of the past depends on all the quality of the restoration, the building to its appearance but also its original spirit.

Work of art and passion, the renovation of a historic building is also an economic act. Respect for the past does not mean technological archaism; on the contrary the most modern techniques and sophisticated are used to complete the construction site.

Thus D.A.O. which will optimize stéréodomie and the work of the fitter; or even resin injection techniques that strengthen the structures without disrupting them.

The goal at this level is put at the service of a state of mind, the modern techniques which will ensure maximum reliability of the intervention as well as cost control.

Perpetuate traditions

The atmosphere as much as the look of the renovated monument depend on a multitude of details that go from the choice of materials to processing and assembly.

To make their buildings to their original shine and appearance, technicians follow the ancient building techniques.

Trained in the trades of yesteryear, the companions execute projects using conventional and traditional materials such as lime, stone or brick, if possible period.

Distinguishing features of monuments, ornaments are often the parties who have suffered most severely the action of natural erosion or that most pernicious of pollution and men.

The stonemason must then repeat the gestures that, centuries before, had given life to the same reasons, jewels, medallions, moldings ...

Africaver, an investment in automotive glass.

Created thanks to the spin of the Enava in 1997, the company Africaver think about setting up a production unit in the west of the country to approach the future automotive division.

Located in the industrial area of ​​Ouled Salah (Taher, Jijel), the Spa Africaver economic public company seriously considering settling in joint venture with a French company in Oran to enjoy the setting Place the automotive cluster in the region and provide automotive glass to the various plants that will take up residence there.

This choice is also explained by the desire of both partners to approach the free zones of Oujda but also Spain and its plants, to enjoy a cheaper cost than transfer of eastern countries

Coralie Quincey - Sculptor

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"Sculptor and stone cutter for nearly 20 years, I learned the trade for 10 years with craftsmen stonemasons in Gironde: façade restoration, stylish fireplaces, interior arrangement of stone, creating fountains, etc. .. After discovering the Pyrenean marble, I turned towards the creation of sculpture. Today I work marble and stone in my studio in Sainte Croix du Mont. "

Stereotomy

In the first sense of the term, stereotomy is the art of cutting in different volumes for assembly; in architecture, it refers more specifically to the art of cutting stones for the construction of arches, tubes, domes or flights of stairs ... If we still speak of "stereotomy wood" about assembling the timber, it is found that this effect disappears in different architectural dictionaries, be it that of D'Aviler, authoritative in the eighteenth century or the architectural vocabulary published by the Department for Business Culture in 1972. This shift in meaning is not accidental. Unlike carpenter who makes the skeleton of a volume, which determines boilermaker skin, stonemason works directly the mass of material to which any shape can be given. Through the judicious assembly of small stones cut in a wedge shape, the quoins or segments, which do not take them as the pressure exerted on each of its neighbors, the tailor sends architectural elements reaching. But unlike the apparatus walls, stereotomy implies the realization of non-planar surfaces (or horizontal flat surfaces) and frequent interpenetration such surfaces, which poses difficult problems in the fitter to determine each voussoir . In ancient stereotomy also systematically avoids this type of penetration and knows only the arches and barrel vaults. The first examples of stereotomy "learned" are probably in the fourth century Christian Syria where there are paired tubes or domes on pendants. The Romanesque stereotomy offer outstanding examples of architecture clavée, the most famous of which is the spiral staircase of the abbey of Saint-Gilles du Gard.