Rio AI City
An aerial master plan precedent illustrating how large-scale data center infrastructure can be integrated within a heavy forest context using green facades and modular footprints.
- What we like about this project
- Rooftops are extensively outfitted with mechanical infrastructure directly adjacent to intensive green wall cladding.
Materials
- green-wall
- concrete
- metal
- glass
Visual identifiers
- green-facade
- campus-master-plan
- modular-buildings
- forest-integration
Style tags
- ecological
- infrastructure
- contemporary
- campus-planning
Visual tags
- master-plan
- campus
- infrastructure
- green-roof
- sustainable
- aerial-view
- Geometry
- Orthogonal layout of multiple large square buildings set within an expansive landscaped campus connected by structured roadway grids and pathways.
- Facade system
- Vertical green walls enveloping the multi-story rectilinear building volumes.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete industrial frames designed for heavy mechanical loading.
- Spatial scale
- Macro-scale master plan showing large industrial-sized data center volumes relative to surrounding tree canopies and road networks.
- Lighting
- Bright, even daylight casting soft shadows from building volumes onto surrounding green roofs and landscape.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, verdant, and high-tech campus blending heavy industrial structures into a natural setting.
- Environmental context
- Expansive green campus embedded in a lush tropical forest setting with surrounding civic infrastructure.
- Spatial experience
- From above, the arrangement balances massive standalone infrastructure blocks against an expansive, densely forested natural buffer.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating cubic volumes arranged in an offset grid pattern across the site.
- Style reading
- Contemporary ecological infrastructure campus
- Program
- Data center campus and technology hub
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- urban
- Materials
- green-wall, concrete, metal, glass
- Visual identifiers
- green-facade, campus-master-plan, modular-buildings, forest-integration
- Style tags
- ecological, infrastructure, contemporary, campus-planning
- Visual tags
- master-plan, campus, infrastructure, green-roof, sustainable, aerial-view
- Geometry
- Orthogonal layout of multiple large square buildings set within an expansive landscaped campus connected by structured roadway grids and pathways.
- Facade system
- Vertical green walls enveloping the multi-story rectilinear building volumes.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete industrial frames designed for heavy mechanical loading.
- Spatial scale
- Macro-scale master plan showing large industrial-sized data center volumes relative to surrounding tree canopies and road networks.
- Lighting
- Bright, even daylight casting soft shadows from building volumes onto surrounding green roofs and landscape.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, verdant, and high-tech campus blending heavy industrial structures into a natural setting.
- Environmental context
- Expansive green campus embedded in a lush tropical forest setting with surrounding civic infrastructure.
- Spatial experience
- From above, the arrangement balances massive standalone infrastructure blocks against an expansive, densely forested natural buffer.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating cubic volumes arranged in an offset grid pattern across the site.
- Style reading
- Contemporary ecological infrastructure campus
- Program
- Data center campus and technology hub
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- urban