This project explores a visionary headquarters design for a global tech company, addressing the growing challenge of energy-intensive data infrastructure. The design centers around a critical question: how can server room waste heat, often seen as a liability, be transformed into an asset that enhances employee well-being and community benefit? By utilizing waste heat recovery strategies, the design enables localized energy reuse, supports rooftop agriculture, and contributes to net-zero energy goals. Through contextual research on remote and hybrid work, the project identifies the evolving needs of today's workforce and integrates flexible, human-centered spaces that promote health, connection, and productivity. The result is a future-oriented workplace that merges digital operations with environmental and social responsibility. This sustainable infrastructure concept proposes a new way of thinking about the intersection of data, people, and the planet.
Bio Lia Hur is an interior designer and educator from Seoul, South Korea.
She holds a Master of Arts in Sustainable Design and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design with a minor in Electronic Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).
Her design work focuses on creating forward-thinking spaces where people, the environment, and technology coexist in harmony.
