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from the issue of December 13, 2007
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Architecture students present plans for Cyber Command post
UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
UNL architecture students enrolled in Architecture 410 (tectonics) presented proposals for a new U.S. Air Force Cyber Command at a final jury on Dec. 12 at the Strategic Air and Space Museum near Ashland.
The U.S. Air Force believes the next arena for warfare will be cyberspace, particularly considering the asymmetric opportunities it presents to cyber-vigilantes or other e-entities with malicious intent, and has announced the formation of the Air Force Cyber Command. While the Air Force has made progress in formulating of this new command, the location where a new command facility will be headquartered has not yet been announced. At least three Air Force bases are in the running for this new Cyber Command, including Offutt AFB in Bellevue, Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas, and Barksdale AFB in Bossier City, La., which is the location of an interim Cyber Command.
A final announcement regarding the location of this command is expected from the Air Force in early 2008.
The curricular goal of the Architecture 410 course is to consider architectural tectonics: The strategies for creating wall, flooring and roofing assemblies. However, this course considered issues and processes beyond a focused interest in building technology. By using the AFCYBER as a vehicle for exploring architectural tectonics, students acted as stewards of the built environment just as they will continue to do as architectural professionals.
Instead of asking students to design within simulated economic and political scenarios, this academic design studio has a unique ability to ask the larger provocative question of "What if?"
"Although this design problem is completely an academic exercise, I believe the 13 AFCYBER proposals may play a provocative role in the future planning of such a free-standing facility," said Chris Ford, architecture professor and course instructor. "I further believe that several of the AFCYBER student projects are of publishable quality and I am looking to enhance public awareness about both the type and quality of activities that are ongoing in our UNL College of Architecture."
The Architecture 410 studio in fall 2005 generated student options for a new Museum of Agricultural Technology in Lincoln.
In fall 2006, students generated options for the Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research, an existing research joint venture between UNL and Nebraska Public Power District.
Plan images are available online at http://ucommxsrv1.unl.edu/unlnews.
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