Notre Dame to be rebuilt using new technologies

Alas, what burned down on the day of the ill-fated fire in Notre Dame will never be returned. But the engineers are confident that the damaged parts of the cathedral can be restored with maximum accuracy, up to the chemical composition of the burnt plaster or texture of the stone blocks.

Enthusiasts of one of the companies offer to recover the lost parts of Notre Dame using a 3D printer. If you collect ashes and fragments of stones at the fire site and grind them, they can become the main element for printing new elements. Thus, according to engineers, not only color and textural identity will be achieved, but also the historical spirit of the building will be preserved. But when working with modern stone-cutting tools, it will not be possible to repeat those surface irregularities that were obtained by ancient masters when using hand tools.

According to experts, the restoration of the lost part should not be difficult. Engineers have a detailed three-dimensional model of the cathedral, consisting of more than a billion points. In addition, France is the owner of a rich historical heritage in the form of many castles and palaces, so the country has a sufficient number of highly qualified restorers.

But if there shouldn’t be any problems with stone blocks, statues and decor elements, then restoration of a wooden roof seems more problematic. The thing is that the wooden elements of the roof of the cathedral is simply impossible to recreate in its original form. The completely burnt roof was made of oak wood, and in total about 1,300 trees were cut down for construction. Of course, oaks grow in our time, and in Europe there is a sufficient number of them. But the problem is that these are not at all the kind of oaks that grew in France in the XII century - they are much lower and smaller in diameter. The ancient oaks that were used in the construction of the cathedral were 400-500 years old. Alas, today the number of such rare specimens is very limited and they are inferior in many respects to their mighty ancestors. In addition, there is no way to use them as raw materials, since for the most part they are under protection.

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