Cloud Catchers

How is a cloud designed? Cloud Catchers explores how a data centre, normally sealed, invisible, and anti‑architectural, might open itself to public experience. In response to the expanding digital infrastructure and its spatial opacity, the project reimagines the data centre as a communal dining environment that reveals the flows and atmospheres of data. Inspired by Tron and the electromagnetic spectrum, the proposal translates wired and wireless transfer into gradients of light and fragility: cool blues at the open ground level, glowing magentas through the semi‑secure middle, and infrared warmth within the secure core. The architecture is a “cloud” made physical: layered, translucent, and delicately connected. Through levels, light, and material perforation, Cloud Catchers turns infrastructure into experience, asking how architecture might humanise the intangible systems that sustain daily life, and how the public might dwell inside the very networks that silently underpin their world.