Invisible Infrastructures investigates the unseen networks that underpin urban life through a submerged intervention beneath the Hudson River. The proposal reveals the often-overlooked systems of energy, data, and ecology as entangled flows—circulating beneath the surface yet vital to the city’s pulse. By situating hydroelectric turbines, a data center, and a hydrology lab, the proposal transforms the Hudson into both generator and regulator: harnessing the river’s natural flow to produce clean energy, and its cool depths to passively regulate the thermal load of data infrastructure. This hidden architecture is not only about efficiency—it reclaims the river as a site of empowerment, challenging extractive urban systems and reframing infrastructure as reciprocal and life-sustaining.
Submersion becomes a deliberate act: a way of embedding architecture within the river’s living cycles. Here, power is rooted not in monumentality, but in the continuity of hydrological and ecological flows. Inspired by the resilience of marine species that adapted to toxic conditions—and the case of wood falls, where the damage of one leads to the possibility of others—the project imagines infrastructure that fosters interspecies cooperation and material care. Data gathered from weather masts, currents, and microbial life feed into real-time visualizations, transforming the Hudson into a living archive.
