Distribution

Façade

Ground floor

Upper floor

The building has three floors that at the beginning were used as follows: the ground floor for housing, laboratories, kitchens, dining room, storehouse and other services; the mezzanine for clerks and staff from the College of Mines and students’ dormitories; and the upper floor for classrooms, the Dean’s Hall, the Ancient Chapel and the Ceremonies’ Hall.

The spaces were distributed around patios, as one goes from the vestibule to the main patio, which connects with the staircase, one comes across smaller patios located in the southern part where the laboratories and students’ dormitories were.