Dover, New Jersey. The aftermath of the Lake Denmark Munitions Storage explosion of July 1926.
storage sites towards a morphology of US ordnance magazines
typology | magazines
munitions storage installations explosions containment
by adam bobbette and alexis bhagat
‘In general, storage buildings, called magazines, at military installations are a ubiquitous necessity with a mundane function, usually translated into a utilitarian form that lacks excitement to the casual observer.’ —US Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District. Army Ammunition and Explosives Storage in the United States, 1775-1945 From a satellite photo , the scale of US ammunition storage cannot but astound even a casual observer. Crystalline clusters of mounds stretch for miles and miles out through desert and prairie from quaint small-towns of Army camps. In order to read the patterns of these concrete abstractions, we sought to identify the types of buildings that comprise them and learn the code of their arrangements.
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