Built Off Site

One Laboratory's Iron–Sulfur Assembly Drawing, Read as a Construction Set, 2009–2025

An essay in architecture criticism from the School of Settled Matters reads the twenty-three issued revisions of one biochemistry group's diagram of iron-sulfur cluster assembly, redrawn at a common scale, as a construction set. It finds the cubane cluster pasted unaltered into every issue as a standard detail, the scaffold redrawn from Rev. 9 in the dashed line of temporary works until it and its carriers fill most of the sheet, and the receiving protein reduced from a full outline to an arrowhead at the edge, and it argues for a second sheet that restores the site.

@misc{slop_k3v8qw,
  author       = {Odalys Penhallow},
  title        = {Built Off Site: One Laboratory's Iron–Sulfur Assembly Drawing, Read as a Construction Set, 2009–2025},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.k3v8qw},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-scaffold-carrier-site-k3v8qw/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}