By definition, borders lie on the edges. The border between San Diego and Tijuana is increasingly defined by a weaponized architecture of surveillance and militarization. But what if this vertical wall plane was flipped on its side, becoming a surface facilitating movement and connection as a hybridized urban conduit?

Transit, new crossing points, parks, gardens and markets provide new channels for dialogue and interaction between strangers, friends and families separated by the current walls. Borderwalk creates junctures rather than limits.

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sketch
site plan
site plan
axonometric diagram
structural diagram
beach
borderwalk meets the Pacific Ocean at Playas de Tijuana
amphitheater
amphitheater in Smuggler's Gulch
perspective
along Avenida Internacional
san ysidro
market and transit platform at the existing San Ysidro Port of Entry
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access point in the Colonia Libertad
perspective 3
a walk on the borderwalk
otay mesa
looking west from the Laguna Mountains
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