GENS, Ludmilla Cerveny · Bunker

Ludmilla Cerveny

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The data center is paradigmatic of our time: it embodies the contradiction between frenetic dematerialisation and the physical structures which enable it. It is also a highly secured place.
Sunk into the natural slope, the 100m long concrete volume surfaces only as a low, blank wall topped with grass - a military stronghold defending its secrets.
It is stealthy, mute even, because information is inside and secret. To access its protected interior, one has to go through a harsh metal grating tunnel that crosses it, a contemporary portcullis.