Plumbing Configurations explores the exposed pipes on British Victorian buildings and the British water supply system behind it to generate arguments about private versus collective equipment.

In about 43 BC, the Romans built London's first drainage system, one of the earliest sewage treatment facilities in British history. However, over time, the development of sewage pipelines has been subject to various challenges. In the Middle Ages, cities had very primitive sewage treatment methods, with sewage flowing directly into streets and rivers, resulting in unsanitary conditions and disease outbreaks.

Currently, exposed sewerage pipes still exist in the UK, exist within the ideological contradiction between collectivism and individualism. This research re-evaluates the collective and the individual not as contradictory but within one another’s influence and interaction. This has been studied through the threshold of the pipe; connecting the private domestic and public spheres where sewage and water supply pipelines are constructed as a collective public urban equipment, but often perceived as a private commodity.