Restauração do Conjunto Residencial Prefeito Mendes de Moraes — Pedregulho

This paper refers to restoration and recovery of the Conjunto Habitacional Prefeito Mendes de Moraes, placed in Benfica, Rio de Janeiro, and fits in the seminary of the "Preservation of the Recent Patrimony". The set is a product of Affonso Eduardo Reidy one of the exponents of the modern architecture in Brazil.The intervention on works of the modern period is a big challenge, on being a set where the conceptual and architectural complexity of the original project adds to the high degree of degradation and to the diverse forms of buildings occupation. The main challenges were to accomplish the work at the same time that the building is being inhabited, trying to minimize the impact of the daily activities of the residents and users of the complex, the big increase of the scope of the structural recovery service in the residential blocks in relation to the planned in function of the conservation state of the pillars and the ground floor slab and part of the installations do not attend the current standards, because it has never had a general reform. About the restoration, although the finishes being from a recent period, it’s not possible to find them on the market, which raises the cost or requires a revision on the specification and conceptualization. Based on the Strategic Plan and Basic Restoration Project of the Residential Complex Mendes de Moraes / Pedregulho, elaborated by the GAP / Architecture and Planning Group in 2004, coordinated by the architect Alfredo Britto, the Concrejato Serviços Técnicos de Engenharia started the first stage in November of 2010, being inaugurated in September of 2015.