St-Andrews Castle
a Digital Reproducing
GALLERY
Collecting photos, videos, narrations to make a digital museum
VR
Using VR technology and panorama photo to create Immersive experience
REBUILD
Using 3D modeling techniques to restore the original castle in 16th century
HISTORY-REPRODUCE
Using game engine to reproduce the bloodiest history scene and explore the history behind the deserted castle
ABOUT ST-ANDREWS CASTLE
St Andrews Castle is a ruin located in the coastal Royal Burgh of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland. The castle sits on a rocky promontory overlooking a small beach called Castle Sands and the adjoining North Sea. There has been a castle standing at the site since the times of Bishop Roger. It has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. It changed hands between the Scots and the English During the Wars of Scottish Independence. in 1336-1337, it was destroyed by the Scots to prevent the English from once again using it as a stronghold. The ruin can be seen today basis on rebuilt work complete in approximate 1400, from Bishop Walter Trail. The most attractive part to visitors is the mine and counter-mine tunneled through the rock during the 1546 siege, and the bottle dungeon in the Sea Tower.
The castle was substantially rebuilt by Archbishop John Hamilton, the illegitimate brother of Regent Arran, and successor to Dr. David Cardinal Beaton. But following his death in 1571 it was mainly occupied by a succession of constables. Parliament separated the castle from the archbishopric in 1606, and it was granted to the Earl of Dunbar, constable since 1603. In 1612 it was returned to Archbishop George Gledstanes, but further attempts to re-establish the former estates of the Archbishop failed. With the eventual success of the Reformation in Scotland, the office of the bishop was increasingly eroded until it was finally abolished by William of Orange in 1689. Deprived of any function, the castle fell rapidly into ruin by 1656, it had fallen into such disrepair that the burgh council ordered the use of its materials in repairing the pier. The principal remains are a portion of the south wall enclosing a square tower, the “bottle dungeon,” the kitchen tower, and the underground mine and counter-mine.
PROTOTYPES
VIRTUAL MUSEUM
MODELLING
HISTORY-RESTORATION
STREET VIEW
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