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Bruna F. de Andrade et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 11 (2018) 76–83 Bruna F. de Andrade et al. / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2018) 000–000

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3.4 Stage 4 – Mounting the Inventory and Chips. Finally, the last stage of the process consisted of the synthesis of the material collected and produced and the assembly of the inventory document. This was organized according to indications of the Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (IPHAE / RS), and culminated in a notebook, which has an inventory form, information regarding the degree of protection of the property, architectural description, type of structures, materiality of the property, frames, degree of conservation, information on whether or not the property is part of a larger group, among other data. Attached to this dissertation and photographic document was the historical survey (Documentary), architectural survey (Graphic material), survey of frames (Graphic material), photographic survey of the surroundings, interior and exterior of the building, construction details and existing pathologies. 4. Difficulties and Results As a relatively long process (the project lasted for more than a year and a half), it was natural that not everything would go the way it was originally intended. One of the factors that we believe to have affected a linear follow-up of the work was the difficulty of obtaining scholarships for the students involved, who worked voluntarily, counting for them only hours of work in the extension project within the workload required by the course of Architecture and Urbanism in complementary undergraduate activities. Since it is an evening course, many of the students need to work during the daytime, and whenever any of the students involved in the surveys were able to earn an internship, they were forced to leave the project or to restrict the time available. With this, the evasion and the exchange of participants in the surveys occurred with certain frequency during the period. The project, which now has six students, has reached eleven in its maximum period. In the same way, the school calendar ended up dictating the rhythm of the work: several of the students do not have family in the city of Cachoeira do Sul and return to their hometowns during vacation periods. In addition, moments at the end of semesters, with many work deliveries, were also moments in which there was a greater mismatch between the amount of material raised in the place and the one that had been effectively graphed in electronic media, generating a considerable delay of the material produced. The transcription of the elements raised to the computer also required the teachers involved in the project to organize and carry out a mini-course of the graphic programs that were used, since the Architecture Course of Cachoeira do Sul is still very recent, so that students are all in the first half of the course and almost none of the extension project students had done digital drawing discipline yet. The lack of experience also caused some of the students to graph the pieces with some errors in the design of the structure and the way of building and fitting between pieces, especially in the designs of the frames. This problem was solved with the supervision and guidance of the teachers, who constantly followed the works in their moment of survey and of graphing. It’s important to remember that the object of the inventory is a farm building, thus located in the rural area of the municipality, 18km away from the University campus (6km of paved roads and 12km of dirt road). This distance also required the project's coordinator to plan the logistics to bring students and teachers to the site for the surveys, since it was necessary to use the official car of the institution (for reasons of accident insurance), which is of course requested by all campus staff. With these and other minor difficulties, part of the stage, in particular that of the surveys, ended up being more extensive than planned. The timeline had to be revised and the extension project needed to have its closure period extended so that the last stage of the dossier could be completed in a timely manner to compile all the data collected. In the final stage, there was elaborated a dossier about the farm, containing the history of the building and the owner's family, morphological and stylistic analysis of the farmhouse and tafona, photographic records, graphic records of plants, floor plan, lining plan, roof detailing, detailing of all 69 doors and windows frames, surveying pathologies of all internal and external walls. The results and surprises found in the survey resulted in a rich material that could be branched in other surveys and other projects. The Tafona’s Farm Inventory enabled teachers and students to undertake similar work in other historic buildings. It’s also envisaged that the pathology survey may be deployed in another teaching or extension project.