Estudio comparativo de la restauración de ocho “Fuertes con Bateríapara cuatro cañones”, construidos durante el reinado de Carlos IIIen el antiguo Reino de Granada

• Antonio Orihuela Uzal ^[1]
  1. [1] Escuela de Estudios Árabes

     Escuela de Estudios Árabes

     Granada, España

     
• Localización: FORTMED2023. Defensive architecture of the mediterranean : vol. XIII, XIV, XV / Marco Giorgio Bevilacqua (dir. congr.), Denise Ulivieri (aut.), 2023, ISBN 978-84-1396-129-3, págs. 711-718
• Idioma: español
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  • In 1764, during the reign of Carlos III, it was agreed to improve the defense of the coast of the old Kingdom of Granada with new fortifications. One of the four types designed by the engineer José de Crame was the ‘Fort with Battery for four cannons’, of which eight are still preserved. As the original type project is known, you can see the differences in materials, construction techniques and design details, produced by the diversity of promoters in charge of its construction, the different master builders and the local materials. During the last four decades they have been restored with various criteria, uses and results, according to projects elaborated by eight different teams of architects. It is proposed to compare the criteria applied in the recovery of their original values (spatial, defensive, constructive, documentary, etc.), the reconstruction of disappeared elements, the compatibility of the buildings to adapt to new uses, the difficulty to achieve the conservation of the patinas of their walls and their historical graffiti, etc. Also, the conceptual dilemma between the will to leave the contemporary footprint of the architects in charge of the restoration or to try to show what these fortifications were like when they were built, although respecting the valuable historical contributions produced during their two and a half centuries of life.