Cloud Synergies
Ring, Farm, Pier
published in, States of Entanglement: Data In The Irish Landscape, by ANNEX (ACTAR 2021)
Client: Self initated research for the 17th Architecure Biennale
Team: CLUAA | Clare Lyster with Trevor Brander.
Three projects explore how design can leverage the proliferation of digital technologies toward the desig of new data+ typologies that productively integrate the by-products of data storage (hot air and water) with public and domestic program.
Ring
A proposal that integrates new suburban housing protoypes with hyperscale data storage in an edge city location.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/def7f8e7f551453ded9d14c3912124e9a2cd5779d454ec13ba1102d534f57c52/RingTests-1.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e50092807c5697a0d68f2a7bc5d8a1d78eb24211737ca3989776fc13af3f0205/RingTests-2.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5914c279b40c30726de38ae07c5b191435043d9e4fd569bd6679d782728a25b0/RingTests-3.jpg)
Farm
A proposal that combines distributed data storage with working and living in a rural location.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2bc840ceb3d7d07c6cb81dbe6796abfd1f016cbeabc1dec2af8a28c008478e21/Work-Farm-1.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9796612e6a7cf13f834e45675fc882da17983b1f67e38dca9bc32eebca917ff4/Work-Farm-persp-4.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70c69a5c66c19d04368e2332a154601a20b6f504d821b30c8cf7d67429acad6b/Work-Farm-3-persp.jpg)
Pier
The project combines all the data storage facilities at one location for a mega pier that supoprts a range of public, work and domestic program.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/718d575a111bb378b6a4240ea441cb606129bc0922a307a697d7fbebe4219046/megatop-1.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f63a79f221a3b83bb6c05b045adc2a488132eb1c4ec9d49bbbde237ae512af98/megatop-2.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb29c54f9f849c4acb59b327ca8138114a7f3ae514fda10769ece0b03ef159d2/megatop-3.jpg)