KVPT’s Patan Darbar Earthquake Response Campaign - Work to Date - September 2016

is gone. The upper two floors were not pointed with cement
and thus retain some mud mortar.
The building has no plinth and rests instead on the
ground plane of the rear garden area.
Proposed Restoration
The existing bricks on the façade wall will be preserved
and reused wherever possible. Since parts of the ground
floor wall require new bricks, several wall sections will
be dismantled and reconstructed with both existing and
salvaged ma apa bricks in mud mortar.
Areas with cement mortar will be re-pointed with traditional
yellow mud mortar. Severely damaged and missing
bricks will be replaced with salvaged bricks matching
the surrounding brick size and coursing.
A new stone plinth has been designed to provide a continuous
base around the entire building, as is typical in
Newar architecture.
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