The side walls are completely filled by windows with central cross-shaped joinery, just like those in the first room. They are each lined up with the window they face. Each rectangle of the floor duplicates in width the rectangles of the first room. The light width of a quadrant of the window, 1.70 m, is similar to the length of a rectangle on the floor. The longitudinal division of the window and the separation between each one of the windows are thus marked by a transverse dividing line on the floor. In each bay there are sixteen boxes aligned along an imaginary longitudinal axis that would run through the center of the bays. The distance between the aligned boxes is marked by the second quadrant of each window. In this way, the spaces
Artillery Shed north. View from north to south.
Artillery Shed north. View from south to north. Artillery Shed south.
between the rows and the lines are regularized in a formation of 3 x 16. Between lines four and five there is a jump caused by two transverse partitions that close off the lateral bays, leaving the central bay open. There are a total of eighteen pairs of windows. Two pairs, the sixth and the eighteenth (the final one), are empty of any box. The view of the 48 boxes is very similar from the front and back ends of the building. The southern facade has four windows. The door in the middle has two identical windows of the same height on either side of it.
Artillery Shed south. View from north to south.
Behind this faรงade, turning slightly eastward, is the second shed. We now find ourselves between two identical faรงades separated by fifty meters. They have the same number and distribution of elements, the same measurements, the
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Artillery Sheds
Artillery Shed, detail.
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