San José de Los Molinos Church

The overall goal of the project is to restore and reconstruct the San José de Los Molinos Church, located in the San José de Los Molinos district in the province of Ica, Peru.

The church is a historic monument of San José de Los Molinos that sustained a great deal of structural damage during the 2007 earthquake, including the total collapse of the roof, the main façade and the walls around the central nave.

The church is composed of three buildings: the central nave, the bell tower and the parish complex. The specific goals of the project are the safeguarding of the existing elements and the preservation of the structure, and the recovery and consolidation of the existing materials, such as adobe (mudbricks), straw-clay and wood. In addition, a static and seismic retrofit of the existing structures was designed, together with their static strengthening.