Border Conditions + Relationships A Humanized Threshold
Nadya Robledo Espinoza
Border Conditions + Relationships by Nadya Robledo Espinoza The traditional view of a border states that it is a defining line, either physical or non-physical, that separates one element from another. Thus borders are limits in conditions where a surface or area forms an outer boundary, a line or an entity that separates elements by generating a division.
movement from element to element, is the component that is affected by the intensities of the transitional condition. To transgress is to go beyond the limits imposed by; to violate or infringe. Transgression is the act of transition at a higher and an aggressive frequency. At what point does transition become transgression?
Implementing a synchronization condition in the confinement between two or more elements from each other, consenting growth and extension, allows the affected elements to converge. This transition coheres the affected elements from the border disposition.
The movement from element to element’s subtlety is crucial since it will determine a border’s condition from being territorial or transitional. The element’s properties allow higher aggressiveness of transition when bordering each other thus emitting a condition of transgression. If the same ideology is implemented at a situation where both bordering elements have the same properties the friction is equal therefore the movement from one element to the other emits a transitional condition.
These limitations from, both tangible and intangible, borders inherently stimulate restriction and hostility from either element. The division of elements exposes the dominance of a component that restricts its ownership or force to the other element. The maneuver from one element to the other is a condition that can either go smoothly or abruptly. The sensitivity of transition affects the neighboring elements by either creating a smooth symbiosis or a straining environment. In every border there exists three components, (1.) the affected elements (2.) the physical or nonphysical border (3.) and the movement from element to element. The third element,
Transition becomes transgression when the properties and conditions of the affected elements are introduced to each other with aggressiveness. Conversely, by adding tension to the elements the transgression properties are relieved to a transitional condition. Easing a border from a transgression to a transitional condition by applying forces perpendicular of the borderline to the affected elements can release the hostile properties and allow
expansion and symbiosis. This system can be injected in a current and existing situation, the San Diego and Tijuana border, the largest political border in the world. This political border is a region of a system of spatial conditions that separates two countries with a fence and two port entries. The San Diego and Tijuana border portrays a territorial condition because there is action adjacent to the south of the border in contrast to the north side. Amending its surroundings and allowing both entities to grow and extend as the elements converge will relieve this system of spatial conditions separating two entities with aggressiveness. Forces were applied and both balancing elements allowed the decreasing of higher and aggressive frequency and eased the border from a transgression to a transitional condition. This synchronizing intervention introduced a humanized international threshold.
Border Analysis
Aside from the typological borders there are other tangible and non-tangible boundaries. These boundaries are: transitional borders, implied borders, surface borders, political borders, territorial borders, spatial borders, cultural borders, ubiquitous borders, and infinite borders.
Transitional Borders
The process of elements meshing together or the movement away from each other and the outline or setting it leaves behind is a transitional border.
Element two (blue) parting away from element one (red) showing the border of transition.
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This diagram represents the linear process documentation of territorialism. It begins with a balanced circle on the upper left. The right of the circle depicts territorial factors by exhibiting
dominance of an element restricting ownership of the left side of the circle.
Program Territorial and transitional borders seem to yield the most support to my argument. Introducing these two borders with the related synonyms will allow me to produce new conditions to a border. These interventions will allow me to prove my argument, that a border does not necessarily need to divide and set limits, but can instead bring elements together in a significant manner.
Transitional Border
Territorial Border
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The patterned conditions are responsible for the intensity of transition. Transition is the movement, passage, or change from one state etc. to another. However, The maneuver from one element to the other is a condition that can either go smoothly or abruptly. The sensitivity of transition affects the neighboring elements by either creating a smooth symbiosis or a straining environment. In every border there exists three components, (1.) the affected elements
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(2.) the physical or non-physical border (3.) and the movement from element to element. The third element, movement from element to element, is the component that is affected by the intensities of the transitional condition. To transgress is to go beyond the limits imposed by; to violate or infringe. Transgression is the act of transition at a higher and an aggressive frequency.
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This study shows the intensities of transition becoming transgression by the frequency and heaviness of the lines. The frequency was extracted and after the manipulation of the geometry the point where transition becomes transgression was identified.
Typology: San Diego + Tijuana Border Omnipresent borders are settled in any occurrences of space. However, adding a specific typology as an experimentation of easing a border with a transgression to a transitional condition will vitalize the argument. This investigation can be injected in a current and existing situation, the San Diego and Tijuana border, the largest political border in the world. This
political border is a region of a system of spatial conditions that separates two countries with a fence and two port entries. The San Diego and Tijuana border portrays a territorial condition because there is action adjacent to the south of the border in contrast to the north side. Due to political and cultural aspects there is a great demand to cross from Tijuana to San Diego daily.
A Humanized Threshold: From a Transgression to Transitional Condition Easing a border from a transgression to a transitional condition by applying forces perpendicular of the borderline to the affected elements Cultural context among the border. can release the hostile properties Tension to Urban Fabric and allow expansion and symbiosis. This system can be injected in a Port of Entries current and existing situation, the San Ysidro and Tijuana border, the Physically/Visually Affected by Border largest political border in the world.
Current Conditions: San Diego
CURRENT PROGRAM Current Conditions
Landscape Landscape Landscape
Commercial Commercial Commercial Residential Residential Residential Desired Outcome Representation of the current conditions of San Diego and the desired outcome. The spatial conditions were categorized into three classifications 1. Ecological 2. Social 3. Industrial
Current Conditions: Tijuana
CURRENT PROGRAM Desired Outcome
Landscape Landscape Landscape Commercial Commercial Commercial Residential Residential Residential
Current Conditions Representation of the current conditions of Tijuana and the desired outcome. The spatial conditions were categorized into three classifications 1. Ecological 2. Social 3. Industrial
Humanized Threshold
Site Plan
PORT OF ENTRIES
The San Diego and Tijuana border went from a transgression to a transitional condition due to the application of tension forces perpendicular of the borderline. These tension interventions pulled the urban fabric to San Diego and landscape to Tijuana and resulting in three cavities in which the borderline morphs and creates these nodes of symbiosis between both entities. These nodes allowed expansion of both entities to interconnect with each other and allow interaction. From a rigid territorial line to a stitching pattern, this intervention will promote more nodes to appear in between the spatial conditions and making it a complete transitional border.