Pan Shi

The site location is inner-city suburb, Port Melbourne. Undoubtedly,completing a giant data center between modern city and nature will be an aggression against the nature. This project explores the possibility of let green invade building reversely and achieve the zero-carbon goal. Green pop up in and between buildings, absorbing the exhaust from mechanical plants.

The building is seem as a huge container where architecture and engineering mix happening, letting human, mechanical plants and nature coexist harmoniously. A surreal atmosphere is created for citizens who come for leisure and exercise to have possibility of dialogue with the future.Data center is not a daunting and closed military base any more. It becomes a free civic space, like a land art park. It participates in urban carbon cycle and play a role in building a sustainable future.

Here, Some weightless, some symbolic. Some imagination has opened.