The cloud is our new heaven, and it is more than vapor. It is geological, carved from rare earth mines, powered by poisoned mines, and cooled with stolen rivers. Beneath its radiant metaphor lies an underworld of extraction and waste. Above, satellites and signals form a new firmament, while floodgates pour of quantified emotion back upon us… stripped, labeled, and resold.
Here, theology reborn as capital… a planetary cosmology where even the soul becomes a dataset. We once looked to the heavens for revelation. Now we are fed ourselves, mirrored and monetized.
To draw this system is to indict it. To reveal its layers is to call out its immaterial myth. If architecture is geological, then every cloud is a mine. Every scroll, every click, every like is not an end point but a loop, a recursive circuit that turns human life into raw material, forever feeding the cloud.
This project was completed in Design Tactics under Prof. Jia Weng.