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Horizontal typology for the US-MX Border, 2011EVOLO CompetitionIn opposition to the border wall separating the US from Mexico, this project reconfigures the border zone into a porous and dynamic landscaped space.In opposition to the overwhelming border wall, the project aims at bringing together both sides of the border by exploring an horizontal-like skyscraper which connects and behaves as a socio-economic-environmental node. The skyscraper is conceived via a result of forces that landscape the ground onto a highly operative and sophisticated agricultural strategy. The design highlights the verticality of a skyscraper, nonetheless, allowing it to penetrate the ground.Located at the US/ MX Border -Ciudad Juarez (Mexico)/ El Paso (USA)- the masterplan departure point is generated by a landscape urbanism strategy which aims to improve environmental facts throughout both sides of the border.The urban strategy also allows understanding several patterns of organisation between different fabrics on both sides of the border, optimising its embedded functionality via a series of corridors behaving as crossing roads that will enable stronger mobility between both countries. Evolving towards a highly architectural typology, new spaces of interaction from both sides of the border are designed. The landscape strategy progressively folds into a new typology by weaving the ground towards a 3dimensional form, defining a series of accessible and walkable surfaces.The skyscraper ramps out on the Z axis leading visitors, flaneurs and wanderers to a series of dynamic levels, rising at 80 meters over ground. This proposal seeks to deliver a tectonic-like tower that catalyses sociocultural exchanges between both cultures, aiming at melting them onto a single-layered one. The core is design as a void allowing a façade that performs as a natural brise-soleil.
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