The chief objective of the Villa Ocampo Project is a first-rate restoration of Victoria’s house, gardens, and belongings. To this end, the conservation and restoration have been considered as a whole, in order to achieve a harmony between the opposing pulls of the modernization of the infrastructure and the preservation of the original spirit of the home. The restoration will be completed in stages, with the consideration of the dual purposes intended for the house: as both a historical site and a modern space for cultural undertakings.

The restoration will aim to conserve the marks of time, as well as to use the history of the house to illustrate various historical moments. The refurbishment of the balustrades, marble, plaster, ornamentation, and floors merit special caution. When a piece of furniture or part of the house is in an unusable condition, its replica is built and positioned in such a fashion that it is indistinguishable from the original.

As an example, many of the balustrades on the ground floor were fractured beyond repair and required replicas. A plastic mold, reinforced by glass fiber, was used to recreate upwards of 80 balustrades, each of which preserved the most miniscule time-wrought nicks of the original.

The restoration of Victoria´s historical garden is well advanced, under the supervision of Sonia Berjman and Ana Ricciardi, with help from other people incluidng Fabio Grementieri, Carlos Gasperi, Eduardo Staforini and Esmeralda Almonacid.

The restoration of the furniture will be done according to museum standards, in order to preserve the atmosphere of the space and with the aim of recording the marks of time rather than repairing the items to a like-new state.

All of the stages of the restoration process have been recorded by a professional photographer.