Digital industry is wildly expanding in China and Guangzhou-based Cloud DCS briefed Italian architect Alberto Puchetti, director of Arboit Limited, to design a Data Center inside an existing industrial building including offices, meeting rooms, multimedia exhibition space, and rooms containing thousand of servers’ racks. The purpose of the project is to translate into a figurative language the reality of the internet as a truly important agent of change in daily life and society. The idea of a digital highway of data is translated into a figurative theme of ‘flying through the sky’.

Fluidity and dynamism of clouds shaped by winds is expressed through a 30-meter-long layered ceiling sculpture to epitomize digital communications across space and highlight its immaterial, yet powerful nature. This ceiling feature is made of metal profiles painted in seven gradients of blue, covered by Barrisol’s stretch fabric, and back-illuminated by neon lights. The same rarefied artwork defined by the ceiling is reflected on the floor as a gigantic painting printed on the resin creating the impression of walking on the sky.
All architecture pavilions, rooms, and built-in furniture in this project are characterized by a common theme of movement and shaped by aerodynamic curves.