Resurrection from Bunkers and Data Centers
Adam Fish, Bradley Garrett · Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) · 2018
Bunkers are imposing physical objects that reveal surprising insights into how humans attempt to control time.This brief article investigates how concepts of time are structured through the architectural form by comparing two types: bunkers built to preserve human life and bunkers built to preserve data, or data centers.Though these two bunkers differ in what they seek to protect, each hinges on resurrection.In other words, the success of the bunker requires the emergence of its contents (people and/or data) at some point in the future.Where emergence is premature or never takes place, the temporality of the bunker is interrupted, rendering its materiality moot; unplanned interruptions may have serious consequences for life and death.