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In the Paris area there are important gypsum resources which results in an extended use of gypsum in traditional architecture as façade renders. Traditional renders are still visible today in urban areas and in the surrounding countryside. This study concerns renders of the vernacular architecture of the Vexin Français, few tens of kilometres North-West of Paris and is based on the work carried out by Tiffanie Le Dantec in her PhD thesis. We focus our research on the analysis of ancient and new renders in order to propose suitable conservation or restoration solutions. This preliminary study compares several physical, chemical and mineralogical properties of ancient render samples and modern renders formulations used for façade restoration, in order to find possible relationships between the characteristics of studied formulations and their physical properties. The final goal is to estimate physical properties of ancient renders from their mineralogical composition.

Keywords: Traditional gypsum renders, renders conservation, renders restoration, mechanical properties, chemical analysis, hydric properties