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Infrastructural Topologies: Hueco-Mesilla Bolson Infrastructural Hub

Part 2 Project 2016
Maicol Cardelli
 Delft University of Technology Delft | The Netherlands
In the context of the border region between United States and Mexico, the project takes the current water crisis of the area as a possibility to investigate a different kind of water infrastructure, in its relation with the landscape. Through the employment of a manifest architectural language for infrastructural monumentality, it aims to represent the ideological value that infrastructure assumes in this context in shaping both landscape and culture.

Tutor(s)
Hrvoje Šmidihen
2016
The Border Region. A paradoxical condition of attraction and division.
Border Waters. The precarious state of transboundary aquifers.
Infrastructural Ideology. Infrastructure as an instrument of sovereignty on the landscape.
Integrated Eco-Infrastructural Apparatus. Strategic embedding of water infrastructure in the city.
A Machine in the Garden. Separation and estrangement from the surroundings.
As Infrastructural Equipment. Mechanical dissection of the water-infrastructure components.
As Infrastructural Monument. An active embodiment of ideology.
Inhabiting Infrastructure. Exploration of the civic core.
Contact. Materialization of conflicting natures.
The Strategic Vision for the Chamizal Area. Relations and connections with the context.
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