About

I am based in Basel, Switzer­land, and spe­cial­ize in the con­ser­va­tion of ar­chi­tec­tur­al sur­faces, fo­cus­ing on in­or­gan­ic ma­ter­i­als and their con­struc­tion con­tex­t. This in­cludes, for ex­ample, stone and plaster, as well as dec­or­ated sur­faces like wall paint­ings and mo­sa­ic­s.

By em­ploy­ing com­pre­hens­ive doc­u­ment­a­tion, build­ing re­search, and the plan­ning and ex­e­cu­tion of care pro­grams and in­ter­ven­tion­s, I aim to con­trib­ute to the pre­ser­va­tion of our shared cul­tur­al her­it­age for fu­ture gen­er­a­tions through solu­tion-ori­ented ap­proaches.

I would be de­lighted to col­lab­or­ate with you in ­Ger­man, ­French, Itali­an, and Eng­lish.


Services

planning & executing interventions
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In­-s­itu ser­vices fo­cus on me­tic­u­lous plan­ning and ef­fi­cient ex­e­cu­tion to con­serve ar­chi­tec­tur­al sur­faces, in­clud­ing wall paint­ing­s, mo­sa­ic­s, plaster, painted plaster, stone, and ma­sonry.

In­ter­ven­tion ser­vices in­clude, for ex­ample, simple debris re­moval, sta­bil­iz­a­tion via grout­ing, con­sol­id­a­tion of fri­able ma­ter­i­als, pro­tect­ive mor­tar fin­ishes, and aes­thet­ic in­teg­ra­tion. Each step is de­signed with the longev­ity and au­then­ti­city of the ob­ject in mind and is ac­com­pan­ied by thor­ough doc­u­ment­a­tion.

monitoring & maintenance
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Mon­it­or­ing and main­ten­ance are the most ef­fi­cient and cost-ef­fect­ive ap­proaches for pre­serving cul­tur­al her­it­age as­set­s. This pro­cess in­volves identi­fy­ing act­ive is­sues and dir­ectly ad­dress­ing their causes be­fore dam­age spir­als out of con­trol. It also fa­cil­it­ates the de­vel­op­ment of an act­ive un­der­stand­ing of the her­it­age as­set, thereby op­tim­iz­ing man­age­ment strategies.

As part of the mon­it­or­ing and main­ten­ance ser­vice, re­com­mend­a­tions and plans are tailored on an in­di­vidu­al basis to meet the spe­cif­ic re­quire­ments of each con­tex­t. They can be fur­ther in­teg­rated with in­ter­val-­based visu­al doc­u­ment­a­tion through pho­to­gram­metry or en­vir­on­ment­al mon­it­or­ing, for ex­ample.

building research
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Build­ing re­search in­volves de­tect­ive work to identi­fy the se­quence of con­struc­tion or dec­or­a­tion work as well as the tech­no­lo­gies used. It helps provide a big­ger pic­ture of the cul­tur­al her­it­age as­set, which is im­port­ant for the de­cision-­mak­ing pro­cess.

Dif­fer­ent tools come into play for this im­port­ant task, in­clud­ing the con­sulta­tion of pre­vi­ous doc­u­ment­a­tion if avail­able, the visu­al study of the con­tex­t, thor­ough doc­u­ment­a­tion of key as­pect­s, and strati­graph­ic­al work in stra­tegic po­s­i­tion­s.

environmental monitoring
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In com­bin­a­tion with con­di­tion sur­vey­s, en­vir­on­ment­al mon­it­or­ing is re­garded as an ef­fect­ive and eco­nom­ic­al tool for un­der­stand­ing de­teri­or­a­tion phe­nom­ena and trend­s, and it has been widely im­ple­men­ted in con­ser­va­tion prac­tices.

The mon­it­or­ing solu­tions offered are en­ergy-ef­fi­cient and suit­able for out­door en­vir­on­ment­s. Thanks to re­mote log­ging tech­no­logy, it is pos­sible to check and visu­al­ize data from any­where, thereby fa­cil­it­at­ing the stra­tegic plan­ning of con­trol vis­it­s.

protective shelters consultation
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Pro­tect­ive shel­ters are em­ployed in vari­ous con­texts with­in built her­it­age and large-s­cale art­work­s. The stra­tegic op­tim­iz­a­tion of these shel­ters is cru­cial for re­du­cing risks and en­sur­ing their ef­fect­ive­ness in sup­port­ing long-term pre­ser­va­tion ef­forts.

Ex­pert­ise is provided for as­sess­ing ex­ist­ing shel­ters and op­tim­iz­ing new pro­ject­s, based on the ex­pos­ure con­tex­t, the ori­gin­al ma­ter­i­als in­volved, and vis­it­or ac­cess re­quire­ment­s. This pro­cess helps op­tim­ize the al­loc­a­tion of re­sources while aim­ing to en­hance the pre­ser­va­tion of the cul­tur­al her­it­age as­set.

survey & documentation
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Con­ser­va­tion pro­jects re­quire ex­tens­ive visu­al doc­u­ment­a­tion for plan­ning and ex­ecut­ing in­ter­ven­tion­s, as well as for mon­it­or­ing de­teri­or­a­tion pro­cesses.

Ter­restri­al laser scan­ning (TLS) and pho­to­gram­metry are em­ployed to ac­quire the geo­metry and visu­al in­form­a­tion of the cul­tur­al her­it­age as­set, from which plans and or­tho­pho­to­graphs are gen­er­ated. Ob­ser­va­tions are an­not­ated with the help of GIS tools on tab­let devices or on pa­per, de­pend­ing on the scope and re­quire­ments of the pro­ject.

determination of material properties
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Un­der­stand­ing the prop­er­ties of spe­cif­ic spe­ci­mens is vi­tal not only for re­cog­niz­ing the ma­ter­i­als and tech­niques ori­gin­ally used but also for ana­lyz­ing de­teri­or­a­tion phe­nom­ena and tail­or­ing in­ter­ven­tions to spe­cif­ic con­texts.

Many phys­ic­al prop­er­ties can be as­sessed either in­-s­itu or in the labor­at­or­y, while more spe­cial­ized meth­ods are con­duc­ted through part­ner labor­at­or­ies.

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Anjo Weichbrodt

MA Conservator-Restorer SKR

My pro­fes­sion­al jour­ney began as an ap­pren­tice in wall paint­ing con­ser­va­tion in France, be­fore delving fur­ther into the field through un­der­gradu­ate stud­ies and work in Rome, Italy. I then spe­cial­ized in the MA pro­gram for the con­ser­va­tion of ar­chi­tec­tur­al sur­faces at SUP­SI in Switzer­land, which en­riched my know­ledge and skills and strengthened my ded­ic­a­tion to the field.

Over time, I have had vari­ous op­por­tun­it­ies to deep­en my un­der­stand­ing and ap­ply strategies to as­sess de­teri­or­a­tion phe­nom­ena and ma­ter­i­al prop­er­ties, sup­port­ing in­formed de­cision-­mak­ing in the best in­terest of pre­serving the ori­gin­al ma­ter­i­als and their con­tex­t.

In ad­di­tion to built her­it­age sites, I have act­ively worked on ar­chae­olo­gic­al sites, ad­dress­ing shel­ter con­struc­tion needs that re­quired me to de­vel­op skills in en­vir­on­ment­al mon­it­or­ing and shel­ter op­tim­iz­a­tion.

Work­ing on large-s­cale sur­faces, such as wall paint­ing­s, dec­or­ated plaster, mo­sa­ic­s, and ar­chae­olo­gic­al ma­sonry, promp­ted me to fur­ther en­hance my skills in doc­u­ment­a­tion and sur­vey­ing tech­niques, in­clud­ing pho­to­gram­metry and geo­graph­ic in­form­a­tion sys­tems (GIS).

Along­side plan­ning and ex­ecut­ing field­work, I have par­ti­cip­ated in col­lab­or­at­ive pro­jects that have helped me grow my re­search and writ­ing skill­s. These ex­per­i­ences have been im­port­ant com­ple­ments to my hand­s-on work in situ.


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