Caracterização para tratamento de conservação do papel translúcido industrial para plantas arquitetônicas encontrada em acervos patrimoniais.

Abstract

In Brazil, the translucent paper popularly known as tracing paper or parchment paper is usually found in archives, libraries, museums and documentation centers as support for drawing artists, technical drawings, maps and architectural plans. Many conservatives have difficulty maintaining the integrity of the support, mainly, because of the manufacture process of those papers , which aim to achieve the translucency of the sheet , which occurs through various manufacture techniques where the components used induce , together with external factors, to an extreme degradation process which significantly weakens the paper along the years. Although there is no searching, or publication on this subject in Brazil, one sees the interest of conservatives who work in the area of the paper and that at some point in their profession, they would have encountered this kind of material. This condition led to the development of this work that approaches related questions to the conservation of the types of industrial translucent papers, associated with the activity of the architectural record, especially in the twentieth century, found in Brazilian heritage collections. Moreover, considering that the conservative is a caregiver agent of the tangible cultural heritage, the research seeks to analyze processes for decision making in the treatment of conservation of architectural plans on industrial translucent paper, involving material studies of the object, underlying philosophy, suppositions and value judgments inherent in the cultural material that can influence on each decision during treatment. For the development of the work, it will be approached some concepts that guide the conservation of architectural design of monuments. Next, this type of support will be characterized according to the treatment methodology of the American conservative Barbara Appelbaum, making a systematic approach applicable to all cultural goods, regardless of the type of object or material. The author, as a contribution to determining their treatment also gives importance to the history of the object and the meaning it has for its owner, institutions and actors that guide it. Consequently, this methodology presents more options, answers and better results for the choice, design and development of conservation treatment. In order to study the applicability and understanding of this methodology, and thus characterize this type of support, we have chosen the set of architectural plans of the Presidency Fund of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation – Fiocruz. Section of Administrative Director of the Campus as a case study, which refers the training of Manguinhos campus and two other institutes of Fiocruz. Surveys and studies will enable a discussion about the decision making for conservation treatment of this type of support.