This studio explores the architecture of Data Storage. Every second, 2.8 million emails are sent, 30,000 phrases areGoogled and 600 are tweeted,All this data has spatial consequences, creating an infrastructure which remains largely unexplored. Despite this, these buildings have significant political, cultural, social and environmental implications on society. They tend to be large buildings, containing important information, and usually in accessible to the public.

As a building type, the data centre is most often located on the periphery of our cities, allowing for an object typology that sits alone in a vast space. The Data Centre is commissioned by private companies to store people’s Data. This is the architectural generator - the building tend to be anonymous, unadorned, and bereft of any symbolism. They are also highly secure and impenetrable buildings.

The studio asks students to consider a DataCentre commissioned by the City of Sydney for its community. As rate payers, community members are given a certain amount of space within the Data Centre, where their data is stored on their behalf by the Council. The City of Sydney has chosenTown Hall Square as the location for this new Data Centre.Students are to design the building, considering both the political intentions of this new building, but also its urban position and relationship to historic building’s and Sydney’s cbd.

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This studio explores the architecture of Data Storage. Every second, 2.8 million emails are sent, 30,000 phrases areGoogled and 600 are tweeted,All this data has spatial consequences, creating an infrastructure which remains largely unexplored. Despite this, these buildings have significant political, cultural, social and environmental implications on society. They tend to be large buildings, containing important information, and usually in accessible to the public.

As a building type, the data centre is most often located on the periphery of our cities, allowing for an object typology that sits alone in a vast space. The Data Centre is commissioned by private companies to store people’s Data. This is the architectural generator - the building tend to be anonymous, unadorned, and bereft of any symbolism. They are also highly secure and impenetrable buildings.

The studio asks students to consider a DataCentre commissioned by the City of Sydney for its community. As rate payers, community members are given a certain amount of space within the Data Centre, where their data is stored on their behalf by the Council. The City of Sydney has chosenTown Hall Square as the location for this new Data Centre.Students are to design the building, considering both the political intentions of this new building, but also its urban position and relationship to historic building’s and Sydney’s cbd.

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