MEXICAN DESIGNERS ENVISION A TRUMP BORDER WALL THAT COULD TAKE 16 YEARS TO BUILD
Estudio 3.14’s vision for Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the Mexico-US border.Agustin Avalos/Estudio 314
Less than a week after his inauguration, President Donald Trump has said he will make good on his promise to build a wall along the US-Mexico border and block immigrants from entering the US illegally.
“Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY tomorrow,” he tweeted Tuesday. “Among many other things, we will build the wall!”
But what would Trump’s proposed wall look like in reality?
Mexican architects from Estudio 3.14, a design firm based in Guadalajara, imagined a hot pink border that stretches 1,954 miles, called the “Prison-Wall.”
The renderings are meant to show the impracticality of building the wall, designer Norberto Miranda told Business Insider. He says the border most likely wouldn’t foster positive relations with Mexico, and the mountainous terrain would make construction difficult.
As many others have pointed out, the wall would also be expensive, and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has said his country would never pay for it.
CNBC’s Kate Drew wrote that the construction could cost the US government $15 billion to $25 billion. Maintenance and hiring 21,000 border-patrol agents could cost an additional $2.1 billion a year, according to CNBC and an analysis by Politico. (Trump has said Mexico would pay for the wall through taxes or trade.) Estudio 3.14 designed the renderings around these estimates.
Here’s what its renderings suggest Trump’s wall could look like:
The designers imagined a pink wall, since Trump has repeatedly said it should be “beautiful.”
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The design was also inspired by the work of renowned Mexican architect Luis Barragán, who is known for his blunt, stucco walls and use of bright colors.
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Stretching from the Pacific Coast to the Gulf of Mexico, the wall would separate the Southwest from northern Mexico.
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The wall would include a prison for immigrants, holding up to “11 million people who Trump plans to deport,” Miranda said.
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Another part would feature a manufacturing plant, where the prisoners would work to maintain the wall.
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The design includes a shopping mall for Americans that is built into the wall, too.
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The mountain ranges along the Mexico-US border would make the wall’s construction nearly impossible and costly, Miranda says. The areas without existing fences are the most dense and arid, so taking those physical challenges into consideration, he said, the wall would take 16 years to build.
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The proposed divider is a “megalomaniac architectural proposal,” he says.
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