(UN)COMMON GROUND United States / Mexico

Description

COMPETITION OF ARCHITECTURE AND GEOPOLITICS

border offers a concealed potential site on sfandby, wnich es to a true space of negotiation in gestation, an in-belween I by collective rituals and by power struggtes. Borders offer so many fictional projection interfaces and transpositions of urban pro-blems on a pièce of land, open to new ways of the use of the city.

THE IDEA IS TO CREATE AN URBAN AND ARCHITECTURAL PLATFORM FOR THE STUDY, RESEARCH, AND EXPLORATION OF ISSUES AND QUESTIONS TIED TO BORDERS.

The exercise consists of getting hold of the subject of borders as a symbolic representation of the political arena, be it real, imaginary, or claimed, and to compare it to different levels of the territory and to urban and architectural questions and issues. By analyzing the USA / Mexico border, the idea is to formulate hypotheses and to attempt to solve spatial equations of territories that isolate themselves and that turn their back to each other. The participants have all the freedom to bring an architectural and/or urban response to the issues that are contemplated and raised by the problem of the USA/ Mexico border, be it at a specific location, a portion of it, or its entirety. The participants will have the freedom to determine which scale is the most relevant to answer the raised issues or the questions that they will have asked themselves, or that actually occur on site.

Reconfigure Ihe border United States / Mexico
Solve spatial équations, territories that fold back on themselves and tum their backs

Exhaust a pièce of land, a potential latent place, in reserve,
space of négociation in gestation

Architecture manifest, Trojan horse of appropriations and urban insertions,
which raises the question of the boundary, the urban /territorial transition and the social control of its résidents / users