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T1 The Botica or Apothecary in the Monastery of San Lorenzo el Real de El Escorial (Madrid, Spain): written sources, historic drawings, and new surveys applied to architectural analysis
A1 Chías Navarro, Pilar
A1 Abad Balboa, Tomás
K1 Monastery of El Escorial
K1 Renaissance architecture
K1 Historical construction
K1 Architectural surveying
K1 Scanner laser
K1 16th century
K1 King Philip II
K1 Spain
K1 Arquitectura
K1 Architecture
AB Though there are a great number of studies of the Monastery of El Escorial, the surrounding buildings built in the 16th century have gone almost unnoticed. Among them, the Botica or Apothecary was designed by a disciple of Juan de Herrera and still arouses interest for several reasons. Firstly, because it composes an outstanding closure to the Monastery's main building and the surrounding Lonja, while at the same time it connects other neighbouring buildings; secondly, because the survivingdocuments about its history, uses, and construction processes had not then been studied; and thirdly, because there was no accurate survey permitting an in-depth study of its materials, construction methods, and techniques. We based our research on the information in archive documents, on the study of an outstanding set of ancient drawings, and on the production of a new survey. As a first step, we drew the first set of accurate plans of the building. From this base we undertook the essential formal, functional, and constructive analysis. We also put forward and confirmed the main hypotheses about the building's chronology and the stages of its construction. Finally, we analysed the conservation works that were carried out facing the two main risks of termite attacks and weathering.
SN 2075-5309
YR 2018
FD 2018-01-08
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/37496
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/37496
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 26-abr-2024