DEMO the house

The U.S. Mexico border has been a personal place of investigation over the past 3 years.  The notion of frontiers and how they organize countries and identities.  The border as a constant construction site, war ground, which facilitates the movement of goods, services and people.  Moving into thesis I felt if I was carrying too much baggage, too many old ideas and writings, to be able to actually produce an architectural project.  I want to be sensitive to the issues at hand, yet be free enough to reveal new creative projections about what could be.  


That being said, I was hesitant with my House as Thesis proposal as there was no physical structure proposed.  Rather it looked at the system of trails and the movement of people across the border.  Conversation revealed working within the structure of the trails as a kind of architecture.  Probing at the global scale of human migration, both voluntary and involuntary.  This kind of investigation also requires a new way of viewing SITE- its expansions, whether it exists in the physical ground or the digital or the experiential, and what the architectural response to the site should be.  


next build: consider the rest stop/ look at global migration and the moving site. 


method of building: the line (drawing)

THE DEMO SET