❶ Mexico Border
❷ P.R.U.S. / P.E.R.C.S.
❸ Waterlines
❹ MAO
❺ Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa
❻ Tirana Design Week
❼ Dovecote
❽ Harlequin
❾ Tapenot
❿ Shack
Location
Status
Year
Mexico-USA Finished
2015-2016
Bachelor’s Thesis, ETSAM, 2016
Supervisor: Concha Lapayese
2015-2016 - Bachelor’s Thesis
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Border Territory: Mexico - USA
The main purpose of this study is to explore how the landscape of
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Border Territory: Mexico - USA
the border between Mexico and the USA is constructed. Rather than viewing the border as merely a linear and political demarcation, the study focuses on the landscape formed by the border situation. The border is conceptualized as an 'Apparatus'—the manifestation of the 'power relationship' between the two nations. This relationship informs an infrastructural perspective of the border.
The network of infrastructures associated with the border shapes
the landscape using flows of water, people and matter. That infrastructure allows people to inhabit the desert environment, shaping the territory and the urban development.
In conclusion, this paper aims to study the binational conjuncture,
understanding the conception of the territory. It aims to investigate how the latent relationship between the two countries becomes evident in the territory through these infrastructures, transforming the border from a linear boundary into a three-dimensional border territory.