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Serjeant Award for Excellence in Drawing

'The Scrap Lung'

Part 1 Project 2005
Russell Pearce
Clare Smyth
 University of Nottingham Nottingham | UK
The predatory fish machine bled over the landscape, binding the void between person and terrain. Its surface absorbed sweat seeping from their skin, degrading information over its prey, manipulating their envelopes through sensory walking sticks it had created.
As the mirror sticks unfolded, windows blossomed digitally, defining the architecture around the structure. Conversations formed amongst degrading machinery and hydrolysis limbs, etching time based vectors into their tissue and leaching iron oxide poetically across the architectural membrane. Capillaries of canal fluid percolate through its skin, chemically distilled, generating energy to clean, paint, heat, and breathe new temporary fabrics towards the city.


A theatrical workshop constructed in the armageddon between technology and architecture. The walls are created through movements of hung urban prosthetics developed as conversations between the individual and the object.

The dancing prosthetic between time and its material create the landscape as a screen interior changing room in the precinct between form and literature upon which light and air filtrate through gaps in the surfaces of the machine. Leakage of the machine as a chemical/alchemical reduction of architecture is a criticism on the futility of surface technologies. The architectonic shall no longer have a means or an end.

Tutor(s)
2005
Fish Tickler: Constructed from degrading machinery - vacuum cleaner, sewing machine and music stand
Modified fish machine: The adaptation of the predatory fish tickler to manipulate its structure in conjunction with the landscape.
Light alignment walking stick: Optical reciever/canopy manipulates and distorts the vision of the user as they pass through the urban landscape.
Mirror stick: Elevation of planted wind stick opening its aperture and blossoming over a 30 point period.
Mirror stick planter: Ejects the wind sticks into the landscape at 10m intervals, constructing digital windows into which the architecture can be absorbed.
Scrap Lung: Front perspective illustrating the motion of canal pumps and grapple cranes across the envelope of the architecture.
Site strategy: The Scrap lung sits between the canal and railway, both leading into the city centre. These provide analogue and digital inputs that permeate through the building.
Grapple crane orthographics: Line details illustrating the motion of the grapple unit and head across the terrain. Selecting scrap machinery to be processed and reconstructed into the Lung membrane.
Interior view: Illustration through the Scrap Lung towards the degrading membrane, leached with iron oxide.
Hydro-arm orthographics: Line details illustrating the movement of the arm as it contracts and dilates over the scrap elements.
Hydro-arm render: Motion perspective showing the arm as its degrades and etches iron-hydroxide into the surface of its scrap prey.
Hydro-leg orthographics: Line details illustrating the progression of the leg within the landscape, etching its time based vectors into the larger scrap elements.
Scrap Lung: Line persepctive from the railway towards the canal, demonstrating the temporary exoskeleton onto which the canvas membrane and purified scrap is wrapped.
Scrap Lung elevations: Details illustrating the movement of grapple cranes and canal pumps across the site, and interior panoramic through the leached canvas skin.
Interior view: Illustration towards the entrance of the scrap lung and the existing landscape fabric.
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