Proposal Mres Art & Technology Christophe De Jaeger

PIN LANE PROJECT

Prof. Shaun Murray

Project ProposalPin Lane is a normal street in Plymouth along the west cost of Great Brittain.For the course Mres Art and Technology we have to do a project about ‘invisible archi-tecture’. I decided to do something with the ‘nature’ of the street: the life of the plants and animals. I want to stand still with that life that we never pay attention to in our busy lives. It reminds me of the study of a child, young people spent a lot of time in the gar-den of their house. For hours and hours they study the life of ants, are amazed by the hum-mels that make their holes into the ground or the wurms that come out when it rains.

What about the nature in Pin Lane? In that little street I immediately discovered two gigantic Buddleia plants. These are wild plants growing everywhere in Great Brit-tain. Their commonness makes us for-get how beautiful they are. After reading that those plants attract a lot of butterflies, I came to the idea to do something with those insects for the Pin Lane Project.

Butterflies have inspired a lot of artists and architects in the past. In a certain way they make the street more beautiful and give a sense of happiness to the people walking there. For the Pin Lane project I want to stimulate the life of those beautiful insect in the street.

Experts from diverse disciplines in the 21th century have to work together to take responsability for their natural

and urban surroundings.

By stimulating the life of butterflies in Pin Lane we want to add something to the sense of beauty of the city.

The butterflies are a welcome addition to the wildlife of the city of Plymouth

This by the manipulation of the existing nature in Pin Lane such as Buddleia, sand and water that are already profitable for the

life of butterflies.

And the construction of beautiful designed objects that attract the butterflies from the surroundings of Pin Lane anf re-enforce

the survival conditions of the butterflies.

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A curator, an artist and a biologist will form a team

Maps will be made of the surroundings of Pin Lane that are living places for butterflies.

The best conditions for the attractions of butterflies will be studied. (Sound, colors, nutrition)

Starting from this information the people of Pin Lane will be informed how to change their gardens to attract the butterflies.

And small designed objects will be produced by the artist Nick Ervinck that stimulate the life of butterflies. The forms of those objects will be inspired by the life of the insects.

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Architecture

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Commercial goods

In 1905 the family Mila contracted the in-novative architect Gaudi to design a hous-ing complex on the Passeig de Gracia. The design of the doorways of the two en-trances, created in wrought iron and glass are based on butterfly’s wings.

‘The Butterfly House’ is built in a zoo in Surrey, England and is astonishingly inspired by the life cycle of the But-terfly. Every part of the house represents each change from larval to thebutterfly. This artificial but-terfly house attracts real but-terflies by the plants it sur-rounds like the Lavender, Hebe and Buddleia.

Jan Fabre is a famous Belgian artists. When he was young, in the 1970’ies he installed a small structure in the gar-den of his parents which was called ‘The Nose”. During the night he studied the life of insects in the garden. In his nightly laboratorium he made collages of the insects living in the garden.