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ANTICIPATED INFRATECTURE Infrastructure as Urban Negotiation Strategies
ADVANCED I
ADVISOR: Phu Hoang STUDENT: Hung Kit Yuen
Advanced I —ARCH 706 Thesis—Fierro
This thesis repositions the infrastructures of control along the Separation Barrier in the Palestinian West Bank as architectural opportunities to create moments of negotiation under shifting climates – both political and environmental. The project speculates a possible future scenario in which Israel would pull out of West Bank, and the Palestinians would regain the land located between the 1967 border line and the Separation Barrier. With the Separation Barrier dividing two Palestinian lands, what can be done on this piece of obsolete infrastructure? Taking the Barrier as an opportunity, the project imagines the Barrier to become a social and economic spine which gathers people together. The concrete wall barrier will be reused and readapted to structures of buildings and infrastructures of water remediation and distribution to respond to the water crisis around the region and to encourage economic activities along the wall. The Barrier, instead of a separation wall, will then become new economic and social opportunities as well as an urban connector for this once fragmented region.