Bio/DATA Monolith | Berlin, Germany | Unit 21 | 2025

Bio/DATA Monolith transforms the World War II-era Humboldthain Flak Tower in Berlin into a visionary hybrid of digital infrastructure, ecological renewal, and cultural memory. The project reimagines the monolithic bunker as a data center, seed archive, and public library, fusing historical preservation with cutting-edge computational design. Programmatic zoning-driven by agent-based modeling-organises functions while respecting environmental conditions. Historical research, environmental simulations, and precise deconstruction methods allow surgical interventions within the concrete mass without compromising its structural or symbolic weight. By embedding memory, ecology, and computation into the existing fabric, the design not only rehabilitates a relic of wartime architecture but proposes a new paradigm of symbiotic architecture, where the digital, organic, and historical co-evolve.

Front Entrance of Building The project reimagines the monolithic bunker as a data center, seed archive, and public library, fusing historical preservation with cutting-edge computational design.

Flythrough Into Building Building is surrounded by greenery on the exterior, and houses and interior green house.Kreuzberg–Wall intersection, expression, memory, and resistance challenge and reshape urban legibility.

Timelapse of Proposed Renovation This project proposes renovating the abandoned upper floors into useable office space.

Interior Render View from Indoor Greenhouse.

Timelapse of Proposed Changes to the Bunker By embedding memory, ecology, ayd computation into the existing fabric, the design not only rehabilitates a relic of wartime architecture but proposes a new paradigm of symbiotic architecture, where the digital, organic, and historical co-evolve.