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[Academic] Masterplan, Landscape Architecture
Location Israeli/Egyptian border
Collaborators N.Lemire-Waite, C.Penney
Through mapping, various levels of flows at the Egyptian, Israeli and Palestinian border, several scales of biotic interruption were uncovered including, human, flora and fauna paths of travel. The divisive border has thus created stresses on both sides of the border, resulting in overgrazing, scarce resources, and loss of biodiversity.
Threshold Landscapes explores landscape and architectural interventions to reconcile and revive the barren land. Interventions include retrofit and new structural additions utilizing recycled and natural elements in order to rehabilitate the desert.
Exhibited in 10th Architecture Biennale Rotterdam
Published in Building 22 Edition 22
Featured on Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory | FAST
Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory | FAST 2
Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism | Carleton University
/03.8 threshold landscape conceptual perspective
The border region retrofit takes into consideration the military requirements of the area, while prioritizing the biotic. The resultant is a flip of the military buffer zone into an ecological buffer zone, providing opportunities for the biotic to flourish through the existing border infrastructure at various scales, and thus rewilding the barren landscape the border infrastructure had created. Interventions are explored at the scale of the border wall, the outpost and the dune in order to foster and stabilize the ecosystems that exist within the threshold landscapes.
Threshold Landscapes as part of "Desert Futures: Scenarios for Decolonization” at the International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam (IABR, 2022)
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