Cloud DCS

Project Description

The digital industry is wildly expanding in China, with 700 million potential users, and Guangzhou-based Cloud DCS is a major player in this industry. The Italian architect Alberto Puchetti, directorof Hong Kong-based design company Arboit Limited, was briefed to design a Data Centre inside an existing 20,000 m² industrial building including offices, rooms containing thousands of server racks, areas to meet clients and multimedia show rooms. The purpose of this project is also to translate into a figurative language the reality of the internet as a truly important agent of change in our life and society. The concept of “flying through the sky” emerged naturally as a figurative theme with which to translate into a design vision the idea of a digital highway as a stream of data crossing the skies to serve our lives. All the architecture pavilions, rooms and built-in furniture in this project are characterised by a common theme of movement and are shaped in aerodynamic curves.