Rural Datascapes
North Dakota
Graduate Thesis, Rice University
Graduate Thesis, Rice University
The data center alters the traditional representative role of architecture; they are massive, horizontal buildings that are only conceivable from an aerial perspective, driven by logistics and efficiency. This project engages these issues by focusing on the point at which the architectural and programmatic problems of the data center converge, the building form and envelope.
By exploiting the data center's envelope as the convergence of architectural identity and logistical interface, this project attempts to break down the data center's singular blind box boundary and begin to diffuse the data center's massive enclosure. The mass of the data center here becomes a series of profile lines that together create specific spatial moments on the interior and abstract effect from the exterior. The data center is no longer a dumb, flat blind box enclosure, but a series of lines, "a thickness without thickness, a volume without volume," articulating an architectural identity for the data center and establishing it as a regional marker in the Midwestern landscape
Digital Rendering
Digital Rendering
Digital Rendering
Context Diagram
Site Plan
Research Diagram
Research Diagram
Research
Research (coloandcloud.com)
Research Diagram
Research
Research Diagram
Design Diagram
Physical Diagrams
Section Model and Section Drawings
Design Diagram
Building Plans
Site Diagram and Exploded Axonometric Diagram
3D Rendering
