Municipal Archive and History Museum in Sallent (VI – installations)

Master thesis. July, 2008.

14 Sallent_Air conditioning

The village of Sallent has a Mediterranean climate, but in some cases it is slightly continental because of its central location.

Humidity is the result of the proximity to the Llobregat River. In addition, the project is near the Riereta. Although it is not always filled with water (only when it rains), it has permitted the growing of trees and other plants.

Wind is not very important. The urban structure is formed by narrow streets and its buildings have similar heights that protect the houses from the north wind. The back façade, opened to the south, is protected by the Xipell hill. The park is on a level lower than the surroundings, so it also remains protected from the winds.

The building looks at the Riereta, on the south and east. Meanwhile the worst orientations, north and west, correspond to both streets, Portalet and Clos.

The walls are made of irregular stones. The thickness of them is between 70 and 40 cm. They are studied and its interior transformed according to the Spanish laws, the CTE DB-HE1, Limitación de la demanda energética.

15 Sallent_Plumbing and drainage

The water pipes distribution tries to avoid the archive spaces in order to preserve the documents. The drainage picks up the rain to be used for watering and cleaning of the park.

And, of course, before installing the new pipes, existing ones must be completely removed, taking care of the points were they had been installed near the city wall.

16 Sallent_Electricity

Electric installation is planned to not disturb both structures, existing and new, following the line of the wood beams.

It is adapted to the Spanish law, CTE DB-HE, section HE3 Energetic Efficiency of light installations.

17 Sallent_Fire

Fire protection will be also installed according to the Spanish law CTE DB-SI.

Municipal Archive and History Museum in Sallent (V – details and structure)

Master thesis. July, 2008.

10 Sallent_Restoration details

The structural support of the building will be new columns. At some points, reinforced concrete is added to the stone walls.


11 Sallent_Details, new elements

The access door to the museum is located on Portalet street . Before the restoration, it was the door to the stables. Today only some small constructions remain. They have got no historical value, so they are demolish to build a new volume.

This will be the responsible for connecting the existing building and the city wall. But it also concentrates the hall, the space for temporal exhibitions, the lavatories and it permits to look at the surroundings from its flat roof.

12_Sallent_Structure, columns



The existing walls don’t have stability problems. But they are supposed to do not have enough strength to resist the transformation of the building, especially in the rooms of the archive. In addition, these walls are very irregular.

So a second structure is added. It is formed by iron columns as well as iron main beams.

13 Sallent_Structure, horizontal structure

In some points the horizontal structure is helped by reinforced concrete.

  

The roofs are completely renewed in order to solve the constructive problems of the existing ones. But also to eliminate the bugs that live on its wood beams, most of them termites.