Drawing of typical Mexican border house and typical United States border house divided by the wall Ronald Rael 2009 The architect represents average houses on each side of the border. While the Mexican plan (at left) contains only necessary rooms, the American house is a sprawling structure. This imbalance shows how the border wall reinforces economic inequality. The fence is drawn joining the homes together, but also bisecting the kitchen table, dividing the only shared element.

Drawing of typical Mexican border house and typical United States border house divided by the wall
Ronald Rael
2009

The architect represents average houses on each side of the border. While the Mexican plan (at left) contains only necessary rooms, the American house is a sprawling structure. This imbalance shows how the border wall reinforces economic inequality. The fence is drawn joining the homes together, but also bisecting the kitchen table, dividing the only shared element.

Drawing of Teeter Totter wall on drawing of Boundary between the United States and Mexico by the International Boundary Survey under the Convention of July 29th 1882 Ronald Rael 2009 This teeter totter is inserted onto the middle bar of the existing border wall. It allows its riders to see over the fence, connecting through leisure populations normally separated by the boundary. The plan is impractical, yet playful, ridiculing the border’s violent division of communities.

Drawing of Teeter Totter wall on drawing of Boundary between the United
States and Mexico by the International Boundary Survey under the Convention of July 29th 1882
Ronald Rael
2009

This teeter totter is inserted onto the middle bar of the existing border wall. It allows its riders to see over the fence, connecting through leisure populations normally separated by the boundary. The plan is impractical, yet playful, ridiculing the border’s violent division of communities.

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