Dropbox serves as a data center to the growing collection of digital data in Philadelphia and facilitates the development of new digital technologies. Along with this, it provides the public with the resources to understand these technologies through physical media, galleries, and public lecture space. The building divided into public and research functions connected with varying levels of storage servers between them. Each area is subdivided into large program areas with private functions above. The east façade reveals en exterior server wall that connects the functions of the building with the street.