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The Model Abattoir. Source: Ayling, 1908 (public domain image).

The Model Abattoir. Source: Ayling, 1908 (public domain image).

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This paper traces the ideas, built and unbuilt projects of public slaughterhouses that had effectively reformed traditional private shambles and led to the creation of a new building type. The emergence of the modern slaughterhouse was entangled with the enlightenment rationality to exercise control and reform, which is manifested in the spatial co...

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... welfare, following the writings of late-enlightenment thinkers such as Jeremy Bentham. The Model Abattoir Society, headed by humanitarian physician Benjamin W. Richardson, prescribed "a true model abattoir", consisting of six compartments in sequence: "yards, lairs, slaughter halls, dressing rooms, suspension rooms and refrigeration chambers" ¹¹ (Fig. 1). Afterwards, fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, R. Stephen Ayling, popularised Richardson's ideas in his book on public abattoirs. Aiming to demonstrate that "public abattoirs are an absolute necessity rather than a luxury", Ayling advocated the need to have an "abattoir system" that was progressively modern from site ...