Abdelrahman Amr Othman Ibrahim (AMRO)

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Thesis Project Summer Term 26

Data is weightless, invisible, and odorless, with bytes and bytes and bytes of data created and stored every passing minute, and with every other passing minute these bytes and bytes and bytes will never be accessed again, dumped, rotting with no smell, staling but still fresh, invisible, and weightless. Stored in datacenters with 10s, 100s of servers; bulky, heavy, noisy, thirsty, hot, very hot servers. Decontextualized, deframed, divested of purpose, data all becomes trash, data trash. Spam emails, videos reposted reposted reposted, ex’s pictures, flash games, outdated software, dick pics, blurry videos, deplatformed games, downed websites. Upload trash, download trash, consume trash, bigger trash.

The project proposal is a digital dumpsite and social functions. The functional spaces are proposed in combination with outdoor heated floors that are sheltered using retractable roofs. The outdoor floors are functionless by default, allowing for reinterpretation, reconfiguration, extension and combination of different functions and spaces in combination with the enclosed volumes that potentially could open up.

The vacant water tower is converted to a data dumpsite, with servers as the main occupant of the building, becoming visible and accessible. The data-dumpsite-center-watertower supplies the rest of the programmed site with both heat and data; if it’s too hot, the servers are switched off.