Proposal by architecture student to Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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Mar 2009
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is probably one of the biggest concerns to the world leaders. Although sometimes it may seem that nothing will help solve this crisis, there are still people willing to believe that peace is possible between Israel and Palestine. One of them is Viktor Ramos, an architecture student from Rice University.
Viktor designed this gigantic bridges in which both states can live together. The result is a fantastic example of architectural speculation: genuinely massive – and impossibly cantilevered – bridges used as transport links, aerial housing, and skyborne agricultural complexes, all in one.
More information about this project, here.
More images, after the break.
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wow , crazy MTFCKR!!!!. hahaha
so crazy……
Nice work.
I wonder how long will it last until these poor American liberals, full of guilt and cute ideas about geopolitic, would realize that the world doesn’t need a cosmetic “change” (Obama)… but a major Tabula-rasa.
The more it goes and the more the world turns out into “Atlas Shrugged”.
Sebastian the way you describe the project is very misleading. The whole project is a criticism of the whole situation.
“Ultimately, this thesis questions the potential absurdity of partition strategies within the West Bank and Gaza Strip by attempting to realize them.” – Viktor Ramos from his thesis statement.
Nice work. Is this the same Viktor Ramos from Albuquerque, did his undergrad at UNM?
yeah too crazy for that part of the world
impossibly.. lolol, come on think of its practicality
Что-то фантастическое. Зачем???
There is something fantastic. Why???
there’s no such a thing as a tabula rasa.. look around you..
as a future architect, he is so ambitious as the very first generation of modernist. I guess conflict between rich an poor instead of race will be achieved by this gigantic living bridge.
Remind me some works of Lebbeus Wood. Futuristic, fantastic, great art and architecture but not a real solution, just a make up or maybe a marker for the problem. Still great images.
may be on year 6666…
my lord… i guess even that proposal acknowledges the ongoing conflict even in the parallel universe inhabited by this guy; otherwise why add the attack helicopters and drone spy planes on his futuristic renders? so even this pathetic proposal does not do what says on the label…. maybe it is another giant prison for the Palestinians?
@Abdul Al Hazred: Amen to that.
land no longer exists in the world?
not get the idea!
I have to agree with K. After reading the project description, including the quoted statement, it is obvious that it is was not intended to function apart from providing commentary.
Reminds me of the recent White House Redux competition:
http://www.whitehouseredux.org/
Its a detour’ a bypass, not a “comfrontation with culture and problems but building a antibridge that will create a bigger separation between those simiolar cultures. i think mister Ran\mos is a great ilustrator and image creator, but he missunderstood the principle of architecture and enviroment that is creating spaces and connections-he is evading it
there’s nothing human about this ’sculpture’. i find it’s a rather simplistic proposal with no insight about the real socio-polotical problems dividing the two people.
not so crazy for China,maybe!!
erratum: socio-political ;)
so basically Viktor spent a lot of time and effort in making a really sarcastic statement that will most likely be ignored by it’s intended audience, the u.s. & isreali government.
It’s amazing, and I commend the guy on following through with such an outrageous idea.. Obviously totally impractical and sort of inhuman, but the whole point of these kind of theoretical projects is to provoke discussion and test situations that would not be possible in real life, which most students would be scared to try. I’m very impressed by the quality of the presentation also.
History:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EAmtgfPz-k
There is no discussion to have here. It is true, the presentation is excellent. Nevertheless I think that, at a conceptual level, the only purpose this proposal serves is to highlight the absurd nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. An absurd project for an absurd dilemma.
I dig the fact that by examining the materiel of geopolitics (bridges, walls, tunnels) it arrives at a really novel form. Because while it is in a sense a bridge, it has an interior, and that interior emerges from the ground. It’s a spanning tunnel, an autochthonous building form that attempts to take on the status, the use, the value of *land* (which is of course the quantity in short supply in that region). Really inspirational.
wonder if the building is suicide bomber safe. although it might be an act of merci to this peace bringing social housing O
Soooooooooo aggressive …
such architecture could represent the negative side of that conflict…….
Architecture must be a social reformer …
but anyway good graphics for a student
Architects like to pretend they have a social role. It helps them to justify their existence when they don’t have anything relevant to build.
Last time there was a tabula rasa, it created modern Japan, Sony, Toyota, etc…
f**king perverted mislead project.
this definitely seems not the right angle to tackle the existing problems in the westjordan region.
strange aswell that any professor would exept this students work.
Don’t you get it people-the idea of this work was sarcasm!
eww.