Silo Server Storage.

In the near end of Strandgatan in western Vaasa, Finland, lies the massive 40m tall silos in resting silence. Located right next to the ”Akademill” (Åbo Academy) the 18 concrete silos constitutes the junction between the water and important close-by cultural buildings in Vaasa such as the ostrobothnian museum, the museum of modern arts, the theater of Vaasa and the Vaasa city library. The location is beautiful, but has been out of use since the millennium.

To think of a good usage of the silos as such is not a simple task. There are many similar projects across the world that handled just that. They became astounding climbing halls, spacious atriums and compact housing solutions. But in the small city of Vaasa these examples might not be economically arguable, and further more too ambitious in relation to future realistic visit rate. In this case, one might instead come a longer way realizing what is actually already there, making it into what it already is.

Therefore we are making a storage proposal for the Vaasa silos. A storage proposal meant for networking servers: computers managing requests and data from multiple computers over the internet. Vaasa is in the front edge of energy production and future technologies. Internet communication is really the number one growing industry that Vaasa has yet to cover. The silos would become a data center, communicating hub of internet usage, allowing for business and engineers to create a platform where this new kind of industry can settle down and grow.

Project collaborator: Anton Andreev