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Paper mills

Inside, a paper mill is organised according to its industrial function. They are divided into three parts: the basement and ground floor, first floor and upper floor or floors (known as the gazebo).

Cloth and paper handling operations were carried out on the ground floor, while all water-related operations were carried out in the basement. The first floor would originally have been used as a residence, where the owners or lessees of the mill, as the case may be, lived, often alongside the skilled workers and their families.

The gazebo is the most characteristic feature of a paper mill: the numerous open windows, distributed in a regular sequence on all four sides, offer an unmistakable appearance; the interior of the gazebo had no divisions to facilitate the circulation of air, since its function was to dry the paper hanging on the drying racks. 

 

Pictures

Floor distribution of a typical paper mill building
Illustration: Gemma Sans Gutiérrez (MUST Engineers)

Scheme of operation of a flour mill
Illustration: Gemma Sans Gutiérrez (MUST Engineers)

 

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