The border institute of justice & commemoration

The border region of the United States & Mexico is characterized by, among others, significant economic and cultural contradictions. This applies especially for the twin city of El Paso – Juárez. This twin city used to be the epicentre of the Mexican drug war. Juárez was known in 2010 as the most violent city in the world while El Paso on the...

Commute with life

In El Paso-Ciudad Juarez, one of the largest twin cities on U.S.-MEX. border, I found that there are over about 10 thousands students and workers cross the border for school and work every day, which occupied a large percentage of 43 of the daily commuters on border. By this way, they obtain more job opportunities and better education resources....

Magnetic HUB: prototype to shorten the distance between Cd Juarez and El Paso

The aim of my project would be using the complex building as the activators for the cities to improve the urban decentralization around the border area.

International Institute of Boundary Water

My graduation project focuses on providing a water management institute within a conceptual, better alternative for the unsustainable water management in twin cities Ciudad Juarez (Mexico) and El Paso (USA) which are divided by the Rio Grande. The Rio Grande is the main source of water for both twin cities and the rest of the region along the...

Education: Bridging the gap

This Program is a vocational school which is built on the national border of USA and Mexico to provide high quality education to students from both countries, helping to solve the problem of Mexico commuter students, and also supply infrastructure to Mexico community. The design process start with date collection, site research, interview and...

Border design

The 3145km long US-Mexican border is one of the longest and most intense borderlines in the world. The border twin cities, El Paso and Juarez, are unlike any of the US or Mexican cities. The two cities grow interdependently, asymmetrically and share lots of contrast. Particularly, crossing the border to shop is common in the region. Both...

The Interface: Sharing the border though constructing optimal separation with water at the US-Mexico border

The US-Mexico border comprises a de facto third nation where economic and social symbiosis exists in spite of the militarized security regime and political rhetoric. The border region is a paradox in that the regime that is supposed to keep people apart acts as a magnet drawing them together. In the center of this paradox, is the dysfunctional...

INDISTINCT BORDER- Rentable living room for single business starters

Since December 2014, Dutch government started to issue one new type of VISA for foreign innovative business starters to startup in Netherlands. Amsterdam would be their first choice because of its various initial advantages. However, living and office costs in Amsterdam, especially in the inner city, are not so affordable for these starters. My...

Arens de la ciudad

The graduation studio Borders-the Architecture of violence researches on border conditions at rigid borders, where two worlds collide. The focus of the studio was on the border between the United States of America and Mexico. This border with a long history of conflicts, alterations and discrepancies has unfortunately caused for a mostly...

The Place of all

The design proposal for a new liturgical center in the city of Mexicali/Calexico is the result of a deep investigation, on many different aspect, on the border condition between US and Mexico.

Calexico-Mexicali Central Station

The Thesis and architectural Design is part of the studio's attempt to rethink and reorganise the US-Mexico border region. We found that although the region has a lot of potential, hostile politics and problems of mobility result in a region which is unable to deal with its problems, and the potential remains untapped. In absence of the border...

UTBF - United Transborder Federation Parliament Building

A building for the newly established transborder federation at the divide between Mexico and the United States of America.

Complex Projects-Border Studio: Mexicali Calexico Border

Project deals with different aspects of the US-Mexican border, from spatial to political and economical, and finally tries to reexamine the existence of the physical border.

Redesign of the Paso del Norte Border Bridge

The result of a year long investigation into the US-Mexico border region and subsequent redesign of the border crossing between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.

Zonder grenzen

Onderzoek herstructerering open grensovergangen.

(in)visible borders