Project Statement
The US / Mexico border is a line of division between two nations and a moment of connection between the local border communities such as the sister cities. These competing (often conflicting) interests of the border region at the federal and local scales create a dynamic, hybridized, and rapidly growing regional zone known as ‘Amexica’ or the ‘third space’. The emergence and potential of this ‘third space’ is jeopardized by US attitudes towards Mexico and the newly proposed border wall. My thesis proposal is to design a new kind of connective wall (in place of the one currently under construction by the US government), which is able to satisfy the goals of both the local and federal governments, and in the process create a neutral border zone which is connected together by it.
