Cloud
Complex Projects
Cloud
Student: Maruli Heijman
Title: Cloud: Private depository for particular information
Studio: MSc3/4 AMS 2050 Studio
Semester: Fall 2017
Abstract
Data is the oil of the future. During the past decades the internet and the information it conserves grew exponentially. We do not only encounter the rise of this network in our habits, pockets and interactions, but also in the built environment. While its growing it desires more physical space. Looking at Amsterdam in 2050 the research project ‘Cloud’ explores a future scenario where data becomes a physical part in our cities. It investigates the role of the ‘Datacenter’ as evolutionary replacement of typologies of the past such as ‘the bank’, ‘the library’ and the ‘archive’. In this scenario these typologies would extinct and the Datacenter becomes the place to coordinate, manage and trade private information. This narrative resulted in a prototype of layered relations that connects the public with the secured space. A place where the physical space of data is introduced to the public inside a monolithic anonymous structure.
This is accessed through a public area where the public meets where one transitions over the bridge into the isolated realm of data where the public encounters flashing lights, a central consultancy tower and framed in the rooftop windows the real clouds.
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