Borderwall: Peace and the future of the Korean Demilitarized Zone

The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) has divided the Korean Peninsula for over fifty years, and during this time, it has transformed into an accidental wildlife refuge. The Borderwall project preserves the DMZ as a wildlife refuge but allows for exchange and development to occur along a recently rebuilt railway-highway line that runs between the North and South. By rotating the border along a perpendicular axis, the project exaggerates the railway-highway's gesture of reunification and defies the existing borderwall condition. This line of development creates a compressed zone of interaction and produces a physical proximity and built world that the DMZ currently denies. The Borderwall project expands and contracts in time, and provides a symbol and architectural embodiment of evolving inter-Korean relations.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Grantor

Rice University

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• Park, Joanne Min-Young

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Casbarian, John J.

• Landscaping
• Architecture
• Communication and the arts

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103522

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.rice.edu:1911/103522