So the pumphouse answered some questions

THE BIG ROOM

Concrete floor

Industrial iron brick was part painted yellow, remains of creepers

Grass carpeting; spongy soft materials; velvet; red coral; aperture; mirror; black box; green wooden boards ceiling – domed

Cotton wood; Christmas decorations; domed pvc; colourful rainbow; black hole; bleu and chrome pipeworks and machines; snakes

radiators cushions musty; damp; dusty; organic; chemicals – lime; churchy sounds echoey

traditions costumes;

Gym; art gallery cinema; zoo – giraffe house; troll’s playground; water tank in sea life centre; gym;

Makes us feel small; proportionality; ethereal; functional yet resonant – ready to be used;

Trapped between past and future;

Emptiness; lack of intimacy; lack of focus – eyes keep wondering – distraction

THE SMALL CELLAR ROOM

Electrical wiring

Copper/iron pipes

Machines

Steel/plastic

Air/space

Brick/girders

string; sellotape; natural materials; wood; string cotton streamers, curves softness

Small rabbit warren; look down into the space – intimacy; tunnels

Dusty; damp; earthen; chemicals; echoey; flat; different – open, tunneled over

Princess, wheelchair user; bible; very tall person; swimmers; airplane; table tennis snooker; brats feeding;

Water borehole brings water into the plant for the people of Wimborne; when not needed but ready to go;

Young couples; secret meetings; nightclub venue; secret planning in the war – large table with big maps;

Smugglers down the tunnels

Questioning of German pilot shot down at Pamphill

An art gallery

Dance group

Screen covers the top of with swimming pool projects onto it and it opens

Actors using water in rituals

Controlling serpent beast sleeps in the tunnel and slithers up the stairs at night

Lonely beast – loved it when the works was active

Worried that the waters of the world are drying up

THE BOILER ROOM

Room with large green tanks;

Concrete floor; brick walls from Victorian to recent; ceiling low arched vault; lined with wood planks and iron support work – light vent in centre, Perspex irb

Doors aluminum roller entrance large

6 very large cylindrical metal dark dark green; piping with pressure joints; blue/black/silver; aluminum staging over pipes;

4 entrance, piping and wire conduits on wall; silver walkway over pipes and cylinders; dusty;

Background noise – hum, whirring; plenty of natural reverberations for singing, query speech; Hard dressing; harsh lighting; pumps; accidents; building flooded by rain; night patrols; heat – men stoking fires; noise;

Somebody bricked up; water diviners; bombing in the war; parties;

Leyline links; part of a system; water cycle; weirs; rivers; locks and springs; way markers; standing stones; the Minster; settlements; water grotto, e.g. Stour Head; waterfalls.

THE TANK ROOM

Cold still constant hum;

Possible half circle use of space or between internal entrance ext exit.

Made of brick; galvanized trucking with electrical pipes; concrete slabs on steel beams; steel plat tank; square with design and green rivets; ductile iron pipes; cement covered indented arches cream; grey concrete floor; rectangle shaped wall; cream dividers skimmed wall;

2 different source of powers – electrical and water;

metal ladder with rings at upper level;

Dirt;

Opulence;

With UV pipes held back was water in tank disinfecting unite and 2 water only used for disinfecting; storage; sampling labs were 2 floors;

1^st floor blocked up door window;

Room square: 16m x 10m x 10 m; tank 16ft cube; piping about half room with gaps in between;

Acoustics good for instruments and good for whispering; insect noises; bird songs; echoes;

Valued: cleansing water therefore v valuable but undervalued by uninitiated.