San José Monastery, Guadalajara, Spain

The Carmelite convent of San José is a typical 18th-century structure, designed by Fray Alberto de la Madre de Dios and erected by the Madrileño master builders Francisco del Campo and Jerónimo Buega. The convent had major foundation faults causing it to subside toward the River Alamín and requiring thorough and careful repair. KALAM was commissioned by the Culture Ministry to underpin the foundations with micropiles and also to restore the chapel, roofs, and exterior paving, and to refurbish the Carmelite convent wall surfaces that had been covered with coarse plaster or render in previous erratic restorations.