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Tidal Point Data Centre — the long precast-and-zinc data hall with concrete cooling fins against a pale sea haze

Tidal Point

A hyperscale campus on a Busan headland — zinc cooling fins, an open seawater channel, and the fog that comes with the territory — photographed as landform, not infrastructure.

Overview

A hyperscale campus photographed as landform, not infrastructure.

  1. 01CGI Stills
ClientPrivate client
LocationBusan KR
SectorData centre campus
StageConcept to consent
Year2025
ServicesCGI stills
Deliverables12 consent and campaign frames

Zinc cooling fins, an open seawater channel and the fog that comes with the headland. The campus is rendered as a piece of coast rather than a shed, which is how it earns its consent.

Services delivered
CGI Stills
Aerial visualisation of four zinc-grey data halls stepped along the rocky Busan headland, surf below and port cranes on the horizon
The long precast-and-zinc data hall volume with vertical concrete cooling fins and rooftop plant against a pale sea haze
A technician at dusk walking towards the recessed stainless-steel entry door in the board-marked concrete wall, port cranes behind
A technician walking the glazed gallery corridor beside the server hall, racks glowing behind full-height glass, seen through security mesh
View through a fixed observation window into the server hall, dark racks and status LEDs either side of a perforated-tile aisle
Close view between vertical galvanised cooling fins to the blurred container port across the water
Detail where board-marked concrete, a stainless mesh intake and pre-weathered zinc panels meet, lichen already claiming the seam
Rooftop cooling plant and red beacon lights dissolving into sea fog above the fin facade, a gull crossing the frame
The concrete seawater cooling channel running the length of the campus at dusk, an engineer crossing the galvanised gantry bridge
Commissioning engineers fitting out the hall, one kneeling with a work lamp over an open raised-floor bay of looped cabling
Abstract close-up of blue, green and black cable bundles curving along galvanised tray runs
The darkened campus at dusk with a single amber light-bar datum across the hero hall, sunset over the sea and the crane line beyond