THE MONUMENT
March 7, 2017
THE MONUMENT FOR THE SECRET In March 7, 2017, Wikileaks dumped a mega-trove of CIA hacking secrets. In a statement to WikiLeaks the source details policy questions that they say urgently need to be debated in public, including whether the CIA’s hacking capabilities exceed its mandated powers and the problem of public oversight of the agency. The source wishes to initiate a public debate about the security, creation, use, proliferation and democratic control of cyberweapons. Secrets are precious and unique to every different indiviual from all across the world. CIA hacking secrets in a way indicates the gradually disappearing private space in contemporary society with advanced development of technology. In this particular event, from my own perspective, the monumentality of the secret should come from the act of confrontation with the power authority that initiated this hacking behaviour. Since CIA is the intelligence consultant agency that serves for the president of the United States, the White House becomes the identical and essential consideration of the project. Confrontation with the White House is the main characteristic of the concept. The gesture of the form comes from four types: Munstead Water Tower, 1898, Godalming, United Kingdom; Castel del Monte, 1240s, Andria, Apulia region, Italy; Cathcart, around 1450, Glasgow, Scotland, UK and Bunker Architecture，, WWII. Initial idea of the form is to create a shell that confronts with the white house. A defensive gesture that resembles the Type-Bunker Architecture. The shell is very sealed off, while the inside is designed to have an open sharing atrium to allow sunlight in and to engage public activity. Located right next the central power of the united states, the project itself is a strong object based manifesto of “Declaring the Protest”. The high rise tower with the anthropomorphy guesture is gazing its neighbourhood. Moreover, the program of this project is A PRESS CENTER. Monumentality could survive and shine without a program. However, it would make it more vivid and durable if it could integrate a practical program into its form. The project aims at viewing secret as a sacred territory, where monumentality comes alive through the combination of its radical location, anthropomorphic gesture and practical function.
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March 7, 2017
MARCH 7, 2017
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Wikileaks just dumped a mega-trove of CIA hacking secrets.
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CIA The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT). As one of the principal members of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is primarily focused on providing intelligence for the President and Cabinet.
President of the United States National Security Council
Director of Central Intelligence
President’s Foreign Intelligence Advis
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Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
National Intelligence Council
Community Management Staff
Central Intelligence Agency
State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Justice Department FBI National Security Division
Treasury Department Office of Intelligence Support
Energy Department Office of Engergy Intelligence
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Joint Chiefs of Staff Defense Intelligence Agency J2
National Reconnaissance Office National Security Agency Central Imagery Office Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office
Secretary Army CSA DSCINT
Intelligence and Security Command
European Command/J2 Atlantic Command/J2 Pacific Command/J2 Strategic Command/J2 Central Command/J2 Southern Command/J2 NORAD/Space Command/J2 Special Operations Command/J2 Transportation Command/J2
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Secretary Navy CNO CNI
Naval Security Group
Office of Naval Intelligence
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WikiLeaks WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media provided by anonymous sources. The group has released a number of prominent document dumps.
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Former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell. The Guardian, after several days of interviews, is revealing his identity at his request. From the moment he decided to disclose numerous top-secret documents to the public, he was determined not to opt for the protection of anonymity. “I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong,� he said.
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Former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden
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WE THE PEOPLE Overall, 52% describe themselves as “very concerned” or “somewhat concerned” about government surveillance of Americans’ data and electronic communications, compared with 46% who describe themselves as “not very concerned” or “not at all concerned” about the surveillance.
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In the Mood for Love, Directed by Wong Kar-Wai, 2000 In last scene of the movie, Mr. Chou is whispering all his secrets to a hole on a wall. No one knows what exactly he is thinking about, but that is the beauty of SECRET.
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Munstead Water Tower, 1898 Godalming, United Kingdom
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Form VS Function Water tower is actually a very essential part of forimg a city. Its pure form of a tower supporting the water tank at top gives itself a strong and straightforward expression of its functional purpose. Moreover, to have a secret of your own is to store it in your heart. Water tower’s implication of lifting water tank as a storage unit resembles the monumentality of secret’s sacredness.
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Castel del Monte, 1240s Andria, Apulia region, Italy
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Once a prison It was built during the 1240s by the Emperor Frederick II . It is situated on a small hill close to the monastery of Santa Maria del Monte. Occasionally used as a hunting lodge under Manfred of Sicily, the castle become a state prison under the latter’s victor, Charles I of Anjou: here Manfred’s sons Henry, Azzo and Enzo were kept as prisoner after 1266, as well as other Hohenstaufen supporters. This octagon shape form is its own texture in elevation. “prison“ function along with its location suggest the feeling of worship and enclosure, which in a way make one curious about its interior.
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Cathcart, around 1450 Glasgow, Scotland, UK The ancient parish of Cathcart straddled the county boundaries of Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire. It extended over a much larger area than the present Glasgow suburb, stretching all the way from Langside to beyond Netherlee. The district was the base of the Cathcart family, whose hereditary seat was Cathcart Castle. Very little now remains on the site of the castle which stood at the top of Old Castle Road. In 1980 what was left of the ruins were declared dangerous and required immediate demolition.
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The castle had been built around 1450 on a cliff-top overlooking the White Cart Water by the Cathcart HWfamily. During the time of Wallace and Bruce an earlier structure was occupied by Alan de Cathcart, who was a staunch supporter of those legendary Scottish heroes.
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Bunker Architecture，, WWII Defensive architecture is therefore instrumental, existing less in itself than with a view to “doing” something: waiting, watching, then acting or, rather, reacting To live in such a place is not so much to “dwell” there as it is to “take it on” for an act for which the casemate is the instrument. These buildings are no longer just receptacles but binnacles, which is what distinguishes them from ordinary architecture and what gives them this anthropomorphic character. There is here a close relationship between the function of the arm and that of the eye.
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Defensive gesture War is ar once a summary and a museum ... its own. War is at once prospective and retrospective; fortifications ain mot only to conserve power but also to conseve all combat techniques. Pictures on the left show the plans and sections of a typical bunker architecture. All of these architecture are present in the meaning of the concrete mass built to hold up under shelling and bombing, asphyxiating gasses and flamethrowers.
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SITE
Location The site should be around the white house since it is about the confrontation. In order to intensify this purpose, it is bold and exciting to make the site right next to the white house. It would make no sense to put it near Washington memorial, the already extremely high tower.
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Aireal View Within this North-South axis, Washington memorial and the white house are surrounded by massive landscape and park with enormous visitors everyday from all across the world.
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The white house
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Southern Facade and Lawn The “back” of the house, the south side with a rounded portico, is the personal “backyard” for the executive. This is the less formal side of the property.
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North Facade and Lawn Visitors are greeted at the north facade, with stately columns and a pedimented portico—very Classical in design.
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Shell Initial idea of the form is to create a shell that confronts with the white house. A defensive gesture that resembles the Type - Bunker Architecture.
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Inside The shell is very sealed off, while the inside is designed to have an open sharing atrium to allow sunlight in and to engage public activity.
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Courtyard The initial form consists of several towers and its center forms a wide courtyard, which is in sharp contrast with outside shell.
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Aireal View
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Height relationship From the model picture, its clear to see the height relationship among Washington Memorial, the White House and the buidling.
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Confrontation Located right next to the White House, the high rise tower with the anthropomorphy guesture is gazing its neighbourhood.
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A Press Center gazing the White House
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Plan -1F, GdF Programs including: Library, Open office, Cafeteria, Conference room and Auditorim.
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Plan 2F, 7F 4F, 11F
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Model Picture Texture Detail
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Elevation In relation to the White House
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Model Picture Shell
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Model Picture Auditorium
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Model Picture Facade facing the White House
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Model Picture The atrium
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Xinyu Cao —Option Studio Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein Harvard Graduate School of Design —Fall 2017