AWC 4 – NECESSARY ARCHITECTURE

The data centre is the most emblematic building type of our contemporary world – the densest spot in our digital universe which, while privately owned, represents the pinnacle of our shared infrastructure. Unfortunately the buildings themselves remain largely invisible. Subject to technical and environmental requirements, they hide in the fringes of our world; fringes that are increasingly scarce. It might nonetheless be argued that data centres are among the few recently developed building types that, because of their intrinsic content, have the potential to acquire collective meaning.