Professor: Heather Woofter

The tracing of daily lives through surveillance is ubiquitous condition in contemporary life. Surveillance, biometrics and global positioning impacts social, political, military and environmental systems. Through computational processing of human movement, data collection systems automate information databases and predict patterns of communication.

Tracing the phenomenon of  "Dust Storm" performs as the conceptual implication of surveillance system and then leads to the development of design strategies in Architectural manners.

The building program embraces the reality of designing for secret service institutions. The design proposal addresses the duality of the hidden and the need for greater transparency by primarily focusing on the exterior spaces, internal public spaces and means of circulation.

"More times than we can count, we've made history, without history even knowing we were there."

                                                                                                                             --- National Security Agency