⚜️Domaine national de Chambord | Restoration of the stonework in the flowerbeds
Water-Gate© technology was chosen to restore the submerged masonry. The project involved raising a travelling vertical scaffold out of the water in several phases over a distance of 600 metres.
The technical challenge was to install a cofferdam that could hold back up to 2.50 m of water on uneven ground (piles, embankments, debris, slopes, silt, aquatic weeds, etc.) without damaging the river bed and with minimum impact.
To reach such a depth, we combined the solution of flexible cofferdams on a base of big-bags wrapped in watertight polyane sheeting.
Chambord
1519 | François 1st undertakes the construction of a Renaissance palace
1670 | Molière presents his Bourgeois Gentilhomme to the Sun King🌞 for the first time at Chambord
1684 | Filling in the earth around the château to keep it out of the water
Raising the walls of the artificial terrace, channelling the Cosson, draining the marshes 1734 | Creation of the formal gardens ⛲️
Masonry work carried out by GROUPE VILLEMAIN
Architect Philippe Villeneuve
Ministry of Culture
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