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"Data Centre with Seed Bank"
Data Infrastructure as a Climatic System

Competition: YAC Data Landscape Competition, 2023
Award: Honorable Mention

Design: STUDIO MDR
Collaboration: Harrison Kim @fluorite__9, Hyunsub Lim @xxunxub

Sectional model
Scale 1:200
Materials: Paper, cardboard, wood, acrylic

This project transforms an abandoned WWII communications base into a hybrid data centre and seed vault embedded within a mountain.

By utilizing the natural slope of the site, the proposal creates a continuous airflow system that cools the data centre’s server rooms. The heat generated by the servers is then recovered and redirected to maintain the environmental conditions required by the adjacent seed vault.

The existing military structure and newly inserted programs are organized as a continuous sectional loop. Supply and return air, mechanical spaces, server rooms, and visitor circulation are integrated within the landscape, allowing the building’s environmental processes to shape its spatial experience.

The proposal also reinterprets the relationship between two forms of storage: digital information and biological memory. While the data centre preserves contemporary knowledge, the seed vault safeguards ecological resources for the future, bringing technology and nature together within a shared climatic system.

Rather than treating data infrastructure as a concealed and isolated utility, the project connects data, air, heat, and ecology within a single architectural system. Through sectional design and circulation, these otherwise invisible operational processes become spatially legible.

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"Maze × Maze" – A spatial mediation between tourists and residents, Jeju-do, South Korea, 2020

Student: Harrison Kim @fluorite__9

Dongguk University
BArch Architectural Studio 4

Scale 1:200
Materials: Paper, foam board, wood, acrylic

Maze × Maze uses the maze as a spatial strategy to connect tourists and residents who move through the city in different ways. Tourists are guided along curved and exploratory routes, while residents follow direct and efficient paths based on their everyday routines.

Instead of separating the two groups, the project layers these contrasting circulation systems within one shared structure. Curvature, visibility and transitional boundaries allow each group to maintain its own movement pattern while creating moments where their paths overlap and reconnect.

Through this system, the maze becomes more than a form of confusion. It operates as an architectural framework for coexistence between wandering and purposeful movement.

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“What the City Cannot Contain” by Hyeongseok
(Harrison) Kim @fluorite__9 , Lynn Nasr @lynn.nasr , Lucinda Royte @lil_prickly , and Xinyu (Joey) Wang @joeyxny

Summer 2026 Urban Design Studio — The New York Studio: Designing an Attitude for Action

Project 1: Constructing the Past

Transect 11’s drawing examines the relationship between Lenox Hill, the East River, and Roosevelt Island through section and time.

The section offers a close reading of the transect, foregrounding the medical corridor in Lenox Hill, the Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island, and the ever-changing currents of the East River. Together, these elements reveal how water has both connected and separated the city.

Expanding beyond the section, the drawing situates Roosevelt Island within New York Harbor’s broader archipelago, tracing its relationship to neighboring islands that have long housed prisons, hospitals, asylums, orphanages, quarantine stations, immigration facilities, cemeteries, and waste infrastructure. Across centuries, these islands became places where New York displaced the people, materials, and functions it could not, or would not, accommodate on the mainland, revealing an enduring geography of separation that continues to shape the city today.

Faculty:
Neeraj Bhatia @neerajbhatia_
Daphne Lundi @gracejonesjacobs
Sagi Golan @glnsg
Austin Sakong @austinsakong
Sean Gallagher @gallagher_jc
Ankita Chachra @ankita_chachra

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