ft. selden hospital room 7
radium springs, nm
2025
a rebuilding of the last room of the military hospital at the fort.
the strategy included encapsulation and integration with the original eroded walls, utilizing the same material methods.
materials
unstabilized adobe with lime additive
earthen mortar
mud plaster with cut straw
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This reconstruction at Ft. Selden in Radium Springs worked within the logic of historic adobe construction rather than against it. Existing earthen conditions guided the repair strategy, where mud plaster and adobe were treated as structural memory as much as material. The work focused on re-establishing continuity between original construction methods and contemporary stabilization practices in southern New Mexico.
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Rather than recreating surface appearance, the intervention followed the behavior of historic earthen systems—layered, breathable, and responsive to desert climate cycles.
