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Six structures placed within the space of the Abbey called ladder/drum for now. They are aligned North/South with the pillars. East/West positions are not yet defined.
Parts of the ladder/drums:
Each structure measures 1 royal cubit in width (582 cm). Height varies between 13 and 14 cubits (7-8 meters).
Weight is around 15 kg for each unit. The ladder/drum will be maintained vertically by a cord pulled across the pillars just above the molding at 8 cubits height (around 5 meters).
The skeleton is made of epicia wood (80 by 20 mm). Lenght is 8 meters.
Steps of the ladder/drum (50 by 20 mm) are spaced out according to the Ptolemy musical scales: DO = 1/1, RE = 9/8, MI = 5/4, FA = 4/3, SOL = 3/2, LA = 5/3.
The ladder/drum is covered on one side with a sulphurized paper membrane: a silent drum refering to the vibrational quality of all things. Each membrane, being of different sizes, will have a unique sound even though they are silent.
The other side, also stretched, is made of cut sulphurized paper and gauze fabric. The paper is translucide and the gauze almost transparent.
The paper cut patterns are each a barcode with a specific information content. The barcode is omnipresent in our contemporary life, so was the Abbey's coding approach then.
The natural light will project shadows of barcodes and steps over the drum surface, revealing and obscursing indefinitely the patterns to the observer.
Research work
Reading the space started with the search of a corner stone, the measure unit left by the architect monks. It is usually found sealed in the floor. However, nothing is left of the original floor of that abbey. The pillars offered a clue: a double golden rectangle.
The base of the pillars have in common two golden rectangles (in blue) of which the small edge measures one royal cubit of 582 mm.
Source of the royale cubit: Bernard Babonneau, Benoit Laflèche, Roland Richard Martin, Traité de Géobiologie, Théorie et pratique, Editions de l'Aire, Sciences et Tradition.
Searching further, this measure of 582 mm is found in the lenght of the stone cross carved above the convers' door. Other measures used at that time were tested with little results. Therefore this project is developped on the hypothesis that one royal cubit of 582 mm was used for the construction of the abbey.
With a royal cubit, a golden rectangle, and a 12 knots' rope, relations of proportions were drawn to imagine how it was built.
