all men's land
2nd PRIZE
[ileana savescu]
brasov, romania
The US-Mexico border is a highly supervised political landscape.Over the past 150 years the border has changed from invisible to highly militarized area, turning it into a «no man’s land».Instead of forcing exclusion, the project proposes to activate the border, thus creating a device of dialogue and inclusion: a visa-less, bi-national, shared space.It is a buffer zone shaped as a below ground level park that amplifies the visibility between the two sides and where people can spend time and grow together towards a more tolerant and uniform society.
THE 3 KM PARK
The border is a vibrant park crossing Nogales and transitioning the two disjointed parts.It features a diversity of meeting spaces such as cafes, galleries, workshop studios, performance spaces, outdoor terraces, information centers on immigration, along with accessible rooftop gardens.The access to the visa-less area is made through a system of simplified identification points split along the border within a 3 minutes walk distance.Everyone can enter this area using a personal card, spend time here with the persons from the other country and then exit on the same side.There is also a second grid of service amenities to which multipurpose spaces will be plugged in.
The border is a vibrant park crossing Nogales and transitioning the two disjointed parts.It features a diversity of meeting spaces such as cafes, galleries, workshop studios, performance spaces, outdoor terraces, information centers on immigration, along with accessible rooftop gardens.The access to the visa-less area is made through a system of simplified identification points split along the border within a 3 minutes walk distance.Everyone can enter this area using a personal card, spend time here with the persons from the other country and then exit on the same side.There is also a second grid of service amenities to which multipurpose spaces will be plugged in.
THE ROOF
Both migratory checkpoints of Mexico and US share the same geometry.Its roof-like appearance emerges from the common ground and evokes by its archetypal nuance a personal sense of well-coming and safety.
Both migratory checkpoints of Mexico and US share the same geometry.Its roof-like appearance emerges from the common ground and evokes by its archetypal nuance a personal sense of well-coming and safety.