AN ARCHIVE OF LIQUID MEMORY: GEOLOGY, ARCHITECTURE AND DATA STORAGE
Tom Price, Western Australia
Tom Price, Western Australia
for ARCT5101 Architecture Studio coordinated by Philip Goldswain
Drawing on the historical model of the paradise garden and the hortus conclusus, the scheme proposes a series of courtyard spaces, buildings and walkways that structure the various elements of the program on the site.
Using rammed ‘overburden’ generated by nearby mining activity as the predominate building material, the data centre is hoisted above the ground plane by a series of over scaled columns to provide a shaded public undercroft and public realm.
Adjacent, a series of courtyards, flanked by covered walkways, are planted with iconic Pilbara species while a separate compound houses the accommodation.
2020
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