Sections · Section 03

Cut Limestone

Worked stone faces as an auditorium.

A quarry is the one room here that was subtracted rather than built. Cut faces are hard, irregular and non-parallel, so they scatter instead of returning a single echo; what the site lacks is a road, power and any structure at all.

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    The Carrière de Boulbon

    A worked stone quarry near Boulbon used as an auditorium, where the faces enclose an audience that has no built structure at all.

    Ruined stone castle with round turrets perched atop a rocky cliff beside a windmill
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    Stone as a surface

    Cut rock is hard, irregular and non-parallel, which scatters rather than echoes.

    Weathered cobblestones with gravel-filled gaps and one reddish stone among gray blocks
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    Access and load-in

    A quarry has one road and no power, and everything else follows from that.

    A tarpaulin-covered dump truck parked outside roll-up doors at a warehouse loading area