The Weathered Tower
Made of 3D printed white ABS; green, blue and black paint; base of CNC milled travertine and mastic.
It's
been estimated that the average age of a building in the Gulf region is
5 years, and the average lifespan of a building is 20 years.
The
design acknowledges the need for select nodes of seeming permanence in a
perpetually changing world. The tower, which stands on an unspecified
rock in an undetermined desert within the GCC, would act as a 'filter'
of the subtly abrasive but unrelenting dust and sand present at the
setting, which would permeate and transcend through its ribbed torso, a
slow and extended performance that would gradually begin to weather and
wear off the tower's various stratum of paint, layer by layer, revealing
the green below the black, blue below the green, and the white core
below the blue. This process would take years, decades, to complete. The
layers would reveal themselves unevenly, dependent on the whims of the
prevalent winds and its changing environs. In time the tower would
reflect - celebrate - its age, and in its ever morphing/ amended
presence, become a connective link between generations...
