Selected Works Miami University Architecture Design Studio 2021 Boundaries and Borders / For Educational Use Only
We ask: how are liminal spaces created and navigated - personally and collectively? We begin the studio with an exploration of our personal and familial cultural stories. We shape our stories through creating a series of habitable (or uninhabitable) spaces that develop into an investigation and understanding of migration inclusive of International Immigration Laws and Human Rights at a larger scale - the ecological communities (nature and human) along the US/Mexico border (the 32nd parallel north). Through readings, films, literature, we explore the meaning of 'immigration', ‘migration’, and 'territory', immigration and human rights legal instruments (laws), environmental/climate concerns that engender migration, architecture essays, and case studies regarding the towns and cities constructed along the US-Mexico ‘Border’ through centuries.
Image: The "Sand Dragon" also known as the "Floating Fence" in the Algodones Dunes, California, 32nd parallel north.
Image: The "Sand Dragon" also known as the "Floating Fence" in the Algodones Dunes, California, 32nd parallel north.