Ioanna Peponi

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

This project explores the adaptive reuse of the King’s Theatre’s Fly Tower in Dundee, Scotland. Benefiting from the structure’s height and capacity to lift heavy weights, the building will accommodate a variety of dance studios including an aerial dance space. 

 

DESIGN STATEMENT

My proposal establishes a grid that utilises the dimensions of the body to scale spaces and openings. This is intended to promote the use of the body in a non-conventional way, especially to people who would usually not consider dancing, such as older generations. 

RESTORATION APPROACH

Take away the minimum to enable the transformation of the building and add the minimum to make it re-function. This proposal considers the difficulty in sourcing funding for the fly tower, by suggesting a self-financed construction using prefabricated CLT panels. Every time a floor is built, it is occupied to finance the construction of the next. Furthermore, all the new materials introduced are locally sourced to minimise the scheme's costs and environmental footprint. 

WEATHERING

The scheme introduces natural materials that will weather in time to blend with the existing tissue. The biocolonisation on the existing facades is seen as an inseparable part of the building's character that does not undermine its structural stability and is therefore retained.