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  • FEATURE - Studie zur Umwandlung der US-Mexiko-Mauer in Wohnsiedlungen
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    FEATURE - Studie zur Umwandlung der US-Mexiko-Mauer in Wohnsiedlungen
    Ferrari Press Agency
    Border 1
    Ref 13699
    08/02/2022
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    Pictures must credit: Studio Nicholas Abdelkader

    A proposal to turn part of the USA’s border fences with Mexico into housing, public facilities, schools, shops and even a church, have been unveiled.It has been pout forward as a solution negative consequences of the construction of the border wall erected in part under the Trump administration.That includes construction costs and maintenance and what the architects behind the new scheme label the “ blasting of mountains, cutting of roads, destroyed sacred lands and places of worship, obstruction of the natural flow of water and the movement of wildlife.”The alternative scheme is labelled the New Border by France based company Studio Nicolas Abdelkader.The concept comes with multiple objectives.The plan involves removing certain sections of the wall in places where the topography of the land allows it and recycling those parts for the construction of housing, public facilities, schools, shops, infrastructure and roads.

    OPS: Render of the Studio Nicholas Abdelkader scheme called New Border , showing a section of the border wall transformed with housing, schools shops, a church and other facilities by recycling construction materials

    Picture supplied by Ferrari (FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS)

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