Types of conservation procedures

Conservation treatments may include:
a) maintenance,
b) restaurants,
c) reconstruction,
d) adaptation.

Maintenance boils down to proper maintenance and fixation of structural elements, architectural or finishing, removing damage resulting from negligence and to make the object resistant to destructive weather influences. Maintenance works must not entail changes in the structural layout or décor of the monument, nor can they change the purpose of the building, its size, shape and texture. During conservation works, full respect for the actual state of affairs is obligatory, both in monuments with artistic values, as well as those, which do not have these qualities. In order for conservation treatments to fulfill their task, they must be continuous.
Restaurant, includes a set of treatments aimed at bringing the monument to a state revealing its aesthetic and historical values, while fully respecting the historic substance and elements constituting authentic documents of the past. Therefore, technical and conservation works should be carried out properly and skillfully.

The most important task of the treatments will be to consolidate and strengthen the structural organism of the monument without violating its historical and documentary features.. For this purpose, all traditional means and technical possibilities should be used. If it turns out, that the effectiveness of these treatments is insufficient, then modern means and methods should be used, the usefulness of which has been demonstrated by scientific data and experience. Any defects in architectural or structural parts may be remedied in special cases, but not on the basis of stylish or technological reconstruction, but in the form of a filling with features that characterize modern times.

If for aesthetic or structural reasons, particularly justified, there will be a need to replace the missing architectural or structural parts, new elements should be made of materials and in technology, distinguished from authentic parties both in appearance, as well as the way of formal approach, and should be harmoniously integrated into the whole. Supplementary works should be carried out from the position of respecting and respecting the document and the history of the monument, should therefore be far from any falsification.

In the course of restaurants, one should not aim at a stylish unity. All architectural and construction layers, characterizing in a positive sense the epoch, in which they were created and made a valuable contribution to the history of construction and the history of the monument, should be respected. However, if there is a need to remove non-harmonised layers and additives that have no artistic or documentary value, the carrying out of these works should be preceded by an assessment of the team of experts regarding the desirability from the aesthetic point of view, static and structural safety. Under no circumstances must these activities impair the overall stability and spatial rigidity of the building and must not weaken the structure., even introduced later, but necessary for functional or strength reasons.

From the above recommendations and conditions you can see, that the restaurant is a very complex and difficult procedure. Therefore, the process of its implementation requires a thorough knowledge of the theory, extensive practical experience and criticism of the means used. As a rule, the restoration should be preceded by scientific research of the monument and should be carried out in accordance with scientifically proven findings..