“boom”
Location: Merkezefendi, Istanbul
Type: Academic, individual
Level: Bachelors, Final project, ARCH 402
Date: 2023 Spring
Study: Data center, narrative, parasite
Institution: Istanbul Bilgi University
“BOOM” is a response for the input of generating a data center which also includes a digital art museum and an education center of data management. Since, in approach of the project, humankind is thought of as aliens of technology, even though we are in 21st century, project sets around a monolith which imagined to be fall to the selected area from space. Along with the narrative, humankind parasits around the monolith with required components by help of both permenant and temporary cranes. Component configuration is an output sequence of some selected data such as how many tb of data are being stored or how many data are being processed in the center which allows the system to have infinite alternatives of arrengements. Monolith was enhanced with a permanent mega-infrastructure around which components do plug themselves along with their own secondary infrastructures of cooling or power distribution elements. Accordingly, every component has their own spatial units and mechanic systems.The structureand its system allows mechanism to be reduced and augmented along with the functional needs and set periods. The vertical approach enables site to be used as a public recreation plane with the help of its landscapes.