GHOST TOWERS
The Dutch Village once a popular holiday destination in the 60's is reinvented into an exhibition of towers where the folly of the Dutch village is reconstructed as ghosts of their construction.
"Ghost Towers" is an exhibition of towers explored through form, the language of tower speaks ideas of hierarchy, fantasy a place to escape to.
"Ghost Towers" takes that idea and explores it through the form of the tower. The conical forms at the top of a spiralised cylinder bringing the visual impact as well as the desire to explore.
The Dutch Village shares many of these forms likewise the tower, a combination of architectural styles combines into 4 buildings all reminiscent of the tower and its form, the idea of a folly, a fantasy island that you can see but you cant reach an unreachable attraction, the Dutch Village itself is a folly currently there for visual interest but we cant see it.
"Ghost Towers" follows this idea you cant get to the top they don't move they don't have a function, they are there to attract your visual interest to invite ideas that you can't ever conclude.
Robert Venturi's work called ghost structures is relevant to "Ghost Towers". His work where he resurrected Benjamin Franklins house as a structural ghost of the building where he only created the visual 3D form of the building in the original location of where the house once stood. "Ghost Towers" takes the footprint of the existing building and projects them into the courtyard towering over the original building claiming all the visual attraction as a ghost of their structure and rendering the original building as a vessel of their attraction.
The towers are positioned to situate themselves in places of optimum attraction, the 3 lowered walls of the original Dutch village are now viewports for the towers aligned with the walls along with the entrance. This was inspired from Zaha Hadid's "Dancing Towers" 3 towers that are positioned and shaped to appear different at each angle you view them giving the impression of them moving. "Ghost Towers" has done the same thing using the Dutch Village to naturally create the attraction of the 3 towers.
The Towers are made from 3 different types of metal, Aluminium, Titanium and Galvanised steel these were chosen as they are all currently used today for construction, making them a durable material to use as a permanent exhibition to tackle the nature of Scottish Weather.
