GLOBATA township
by: SOPHIE SUNG & TSZFAI LI
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Globata Township project speculates on a future data centre for Cocoroc Township at the Western Treatment Plant in Victoria. Data centres are infrastructures that are rarely physically visited by people, but they are intensely personal and deeply connected to our daily lives. Globata Township translates our vision for the new digital data township where we envision to blend the historical and cultural qualities with the new immersive data centre. This project explores the concept of an open and immersive data centre with the ideas of non-physical security systems for civics.
The project developed a collection of fragmented buildings that are located adjacent to existing infrastructures with similar functions, to bring back the culture of the township. It creates a unique immersive experience for the public while increasing awareness of data centres that are fulfilling our everyday life. Typological studies and experiments allowed the extraction of key ideas such as the concept of a non-physical surveillance system and the blurring boundaries between data centre and landscape. Globata Township project experiments with new emerging data centre infrastructures and innovative approaches to blend them into our city rather than locating them to the periphery. As our generation is heavily dependent on data, we are responsible for how we use our data. The project believes that there is a need of visualising our cultural legacy (data) in tangible form in our cities where we can experience our digital generation.
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