Tetra Tower

The Tetra Tower is a data center and educational center that is a monument to human desire and consumption. The primary programmatic issue is for the non-human, yet is the life support for contemporary consumer society: data servers, which store and process our preferences, desires, and identities. Humans have always stored things of value to accumulate them and consolidate power. Historically, this has been grain, minerals, precious metals, and today: data. The urban data center tower today is nothing more than today’s grain silo, relocated to an urban site and become spectacle to those filling it.

Completed while studying at Syracuse University

Type: Institutional

Location: Syracuse, New York

Size: 35.000m2

Date: Fall 2018

Team: Ava Helm

Professor: Mitesh Dixit