This unit draws parallels between human aging and the weathering of buildings. The aim was to find an equilibrium between an expression and healthy acceptance of aging well and the need for preservation and durability to reduce maintenance and repair. 

The programme is centered on movement and mobility through varied forms of dance including aerial dance. Using an existing building, the redundant fly tower to the King’s Theatre in Dundee, the tectonic agenda focusses on threading a new structure and programme within an existing ‘container’, considering stability, solid/voids, junctions, layers, the weathering of materials and surfaces. Students are invited to develop a position in relation to the retention/ alteration/ remaking/ repair/ adaption of  the existing fabric, which may include making new openings within the walls, adding/ removing floors, using or dismantling existing structure. The new skin may push and pull against the old to create external and internal spaces of varied volume, covering or revealing, supporting and healing, or invigorating and renewing through surgical intervention. The second theme relates to ephemeral tectonics– darkness and light, the flow of air and water, seasonal shifts in climate, frost, and bio-colonisation.