Built heritage materials as documental resource

Trabajo presentado en el 5th YOuth in COnservation of CUltural Heritage, celebrado en Madrid (España) del 21 al 23 de septiembre de 2016Building materials that shape ancient constructions entail an important heritage value itself. The aim of the work focuses on showing how these materials provide information about the thought of the architect, the ideology of the project and the grounds that determined materials selection. If the interventions carried out, that have preserved or not the message the architect intended to convey, are also taken into account, its study provides a valuable document and supposes a commitment with its conservation.This research was funded by Geomaterials (S2009/MAT_1629) and Geomaterials 2 (S2013/MIT_2914) Programmes (Comunidad de Madrid) and the Complutense University of Madrid’s research group Applied Petrology for Heritage Conservation (921349).Peer reviewe